Wisdom and Submission to Authority

Ecclesiastes 8:1-8

ho can be compared with a wise person? Who else knows what a thing means? Wisdom lights up the face and softens a grim appearance.

Keep the king's command because of the oath before God.

Don't be quick to leave his presence, and don't persist in doing what is wrong, for he does whatever he pleases.

After all, his word is final; who can challenge him, "Why are you doing that?"

Whoever obeys his command will never come to harm, and the wise person will know the right time and judgment.

For to everything there is a right time and a judgment, since people are greatly troubled

by uncertainty over the future; even when the event takes place, who will tell them about it?

Just as no one has the power to keep the wind from blowing, so no one has power over the day of death. If one is drafted to fight a war, one can't send a substitute; likewise the wicked won't escape death by their wickedness.

Wisdom and Submission to Authority

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