Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
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.
Who `
is '
as
the wise? and
who knoweth
the interpretation of a thing
? The
wisdom of
man
causeth
his face to
shine
, and the hardness
of his face is changed.
Keep
the
king’s
command,
I say
, because
of your
oath before
God.
I pray
thee
, the
commandment
of a
king
keep,
even
for
the
sake
of
the
oath of
God.
Do
not hasten
to
leave
his presence, and
do
not persist
in a
bad
cause
, for he will
do
whatever
he pleases
.
Be
not troubled
at
his presence, thou
mayest
go,
stand
not in an
evil
thing
, for all
that
he pleaseth
he doth
.
For
the king’s
word is supreme
, and who can
say
to him, “
What are
you
doing
? ”
Where
the word of
a
king
`
is '
power
`is'
, and who saith
to him, `
What dost
thou
? '
Whoever
keeps
his
command will
come
to
no harm
, and a
wise
heart
knows
the
right
time and procedure
.
Whoso
is
keeping
a
command knoweth
no evil
thing
, and time and judgment
the
heart
of
the
wise
knoweth
.
For there is a right
time and procedure
to
every
purpose,
though
a man’s
misery
weighs
heavily
upon him.
For to
every
delight
there is a time and a judgment,
for
the
misfortune
of
man
is
great
upon him.
Since
no
one
knows
what
will
happen
, who can
tell
him
what
is
to come
?
For
he
knoweth
not
that
which
shall
be
, for
when
it
shall
be
who declareth
to him
?
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
.
There
is
no man ruling
over the spirit
to restrain
the
spirit
, and
there
is
no authority over the
day of death ,
and
there
is
no discharge
in battle
, and
wickedness delivereth
not its
possessors
.
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
.
All this I have seen so
as
to
give
my heart
to every work
that hath
been
done under the sun; a time that
man hath
ruled
over man
to his own evil
.
Then
too,
I saw
the
burial
of
the wicked who
used
to
go
in
and out
of
the holy place, and they were
praised
in the city where
they had done
so. This too
is futile
.
And
so
I have
seen
the wicked buried,
and they
went
in,
even
from
the Holy Place they
go
, and they are
forgotten
in the city whether
they had so done
. This also
`
is '
vanity
.
When
the
sentence for
a
crime
is
not speedily executed
, the hearts
of men
become
fully
set
on
doing
evil.
Because
sentence hath
not been
done
`on'
an
evil
work
speedily, therefore
the heart
of the
sons
of
man
is
full
within
them
to
do
evil.
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
.
Though
a sinner is
doing
evil a hundred `
times ',
and prolonging
`himself'
for
it
, surely
also I
know that there
is
good
to
those fearing
God, who fear
before
Him
.
Yet
because
the wicked do
not
fear
God
, it
will
not
go
well
with
them,
and their
days
will
not lengthen
like
a shadow.
And
good
is
not
to
the wicked, and he
doth
not prolong
days
as
a shadow ,
because
he
is
not
fearing
before
God
.
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
.
There is a vanity
that hath
been
done upon
the earth ,
that
there are righteous ones
unto
whom
it
is
coming
according
to
the work
of the wicked, and there are wicked ones
unto
whom
it
is
coming
according
to
the work
of the righteous. I have
said
that this also
`
is '
vanity
.
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.
And
I have
praised
mirth
because there is no
good
to
man under the sun except
to eat and to
drink ,
and to
rejoice,
and
it
remaineth
with
him of
his labour
the days of his life that God hath
given
to
him under the sun.
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 —
When I gave
my heart
to know wisdom and to see
the business
that hath
been
done
on the earth ,
(for
there
is
also
a
spectator
in
whose
eyes sleep is
not
by
day and
by
night ),
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
.
then
I considered
all
the
work of God, that man is not
able
to find
out
the work that hath
been
done under the sun ,
because
though
man
labour
to seek
, yet
he doth
not
find; and
even though
the wise man speak
of
knowing
he is not
able
to find
.
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