4We need to obey what the king says more than we need to obey what anyone else says; no one can say to the king, “◄Why are you doing that?/You should not be doing that.► RHQ”
5If you obey what the king commands, he will not harm you. So be wise, and know the correct/right time to do things and the right way to do them.
6Although people experience many troubles/difficulties, there is a right/correct time to do things, and there is a right/correct way to do them.
7No one knows what will happen in the future, so there is no one RHQ who can tell us what is going to happen.
8We cannot control the wind, and we cannot control when we will die. Soldiers are not permitted to go home during a battle, and evil people will not be saved by doing what is evil.
9I thought about all those things, and I thought about all HYP the other things that happen on this earth. I saw that sometimes people cause those whom they control to suffer.
Ecclesiastes 8
Ecclesiastes 8:4-9