Ecclesiastes 8:4-10

⁴Even as a king having power: And who will say to him, What doest thou?

⁵He that keeps the commandment shall not know an evil thing: And the heart of the wise knows the time of judgment.

⁶For to everything there is time and judgment; For the knowledge of a man is great to him.

⁷For there is no one that knows what is going to be: For who shall tell him how it shall be?

⁸There is no man that has power over the spirit To retain the spirit; And there is no power in the day of death: And there is no discharge in the day of battle; Neither shall ungodliness save her votary.

⁹So I saw all this, And I applied my heart to every work That has been done under the sun; All the things wherein man has power Over man to afflict him.

¹⁰And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, And that out of the holy place: And they departed, and were praised in the city, Because they had done thus: This also is vanity.