Ecclesiastes 8:2-8 - Obedience To The King

² I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God. ³ Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him. ⁴ The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing? ⁵ Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision. ⁶ For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him. ⁷ No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be? ⁸ No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.