Ecclesiastes 8:2-9

²I keep the mouth of the king, and the commandments and the swearings of God.

³Haste thou not to go away from his face, and dwell thou not in evil work. For he shall do all thing, that he will;

⁴and his word is full of power, and no man may say to him, Why doest thou so?

⁵He that keepeth the commandment of God, shall not feel anything of evil; the heart of a wise man understandeth time and answer.

⁶Time and season is to each work; and much torment is of a man,

⁷for he knoweth not the things passed, and he may not know by any messenger the things to come.

⁸It is not in the power of man to forbid the spirit, that is, his soul, from going out from the body, neither he hath power in the day of death, neither he is suffered to have rest, when the battle nigheth; neither wickedness shall save a wicked man.

⁹I beheld all these things, and I gave mine heart in all works, that be done under the sun. Sometime a man is lord of a man, to his evil.