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