4 The king acts with authority, and no one can challenge what he does.
5 As long as you obey his commands, you are safe, and a wise person knows how and when to do it.
6 There is a right time and a right way to do everything, but we know so little!
7 None of us knows what is going to happen, and there is no one to tell us.
8 No one can keep from dying or put off the day of death. That is a battle we cannot escape; we cannot cheat our way out.
9 I saw all this when I thought about the things that are done in this world, a world where some people have power and others have to suffer under them.
10 Yes, I have seen the wicked buried and in their graves, but on the way back from the cemetery people praise them in the very city where they did their evil. It is useless.