Obey the King
Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed. Act 6:15Deu 28:502Pe 1:202Ti 4:17Act 4:13Act 4:29Dan 4:18-19Ecc 2:13-14
Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God. Pro 24:21Tit 3:11Ki 2:431Pe 2:13-17Rom 13:1-51Ch 29:242Sa 21:7Exo 22:11 Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases. Ecc 10:4Act 5:8-9Dan 4:35Dan 5:19Pro 14:291Ki 1:50-521Ki 2:21-24Isa 48:4 For the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?” Job 9:12Rom 13:1-4Dan 4:35Pro 20:2Job 34:18-19Pro 19:12Rom 9:201Ki 2:25
Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure. Heb 5:141Pe 3:13-14Php 1:9-101Ch 12:32Act 4:19Luk 20:25Rom 13:5-71Co 2:14-15 For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him. Ecc 3:1Ecc 3:17Ecc 3:11Luk 19:42-44Ecc 7:13-14Luk 17:26-30Ecc 11:9Heb 3:7-11 Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come? Ecc 10:14Ecc 6:12Ecc 9:12Mat 24:50Pro 24:22Ecc 3:22Mat 24:44Mat 25:6-13
As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it. Job 14:5Psa 89:48Heb 9:27Psa 49:6-9Ecc 3:21Isa 28:15Pro 14:32Psa 9:17 All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment. Ecc 5:8Ecc 4:7-8Ecc 5:132Ki 14:10-12Deu 2:30Ecc 1:14Ecc 3:10Ecc 7:25
Fear God
(Isaiah 8:11–15)
Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised 1in the city where they had done so. This too is futile. Ecc 2:16Ecc 9:5Pro 10:72Ki 9:34-35Act 6:13Ecc 1:11Heb 10:38Jer 17:13 When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil. Isa 26:10Psa 50:21-22Rom 2:4-52Pe 3:3-10Mat 24:49-50Psa 10:6Jer 48:11Job 21:11-15
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence. Psa 37:112Pe 2:9Luk 1:50Ecc 7:15Ecc 3:14Psa 37:18-19Isa 3:10-11Isa 65:20-24 Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow. Ecc 6:12Isa 3:11Job 14:2Isa 57:21Mal 3:182Pe 2:3Isa 30:13Jas 4:14
God’s Ways Are Mysterious
There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile. Ecc 7:15Ecc 2:14Mal 3:15Ecc 9:1-3Job 21:7Psa 73:12-14Psa 73:3Ecc 10:5
So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun. Ecc 2:24Ecc 5:18Ecc 3:12-13Ecc 9:7-91Ti 4:3-41Ti 6:17Ecc 3:22
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night— Ecc 2:23Ecc 1:13Psa 127:2Ecc 4:8Ecc 5:12Ecc 7:25Ecc 8:7Ecc 8:9 I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend. Ecc 3:11Psa 73:16Rom 11:33Ecc 7:23-24Isa 40:28Job 11:7-9Job 5:9Ecc 11:5