Ecclesiastes 8:2-8 - Obedience To The King
2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment and the word of the covenant that thou hast made with God. 3 Do not be hasty to rebel against him; do not persist in any evil thing, for he shall do whatsoever pleases him; 4 because the word of the king is his power and who may say unto him, What doest thou? 5 Whosoever keeps the commandment shall experience no evil thing, and a wise man's heart discerns both time and judgment. 6 Because for every will there is time and judgment, because the evil of man is great upon him, 7 for he does not know that which shall be; nor when it shall be. Who will teach it to him? 8 There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death, and weapons are of no use in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.