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¿Quién es como el sabio?¿Y quién otro sabe la explicación de un asunto?La sabiduría del hombre ilumina su fazy hace que la dureza de su rostro cambiea.

Yo digo: Guarda el mandato1 del rey por causa del juramento de Diosa. No te apresures a irte de su presenciaa. No te unas a una causa impía, porque él hará todo lo que le plazca. Puesto que la palabra del rey es soberana, ¿quién le dirá: Qué hacesa?

5 Él que guarda el mandatoa real no experimenta ningún malb;y el corazón del sabio conoce el tiempo y el modo.6 Porque para cada deleite hay un tiempo y un modoa,aunque la aflicción del hombre sea mucha sobre él.7 Si nadie sabe qué sucederáa,¿quién le anunciará cómo ha de suceder?8 No hay hombre que tenga potestad para refrenar el viento con el viento,ni potestad sobre el día de la muertea;y no se da licencia en tiempo de guerra,ni la impiedad salvará a los que la practican1b.

Todo esto he visto, y he puesto mi corazón en toda obra que se hace bajo el sol, cuando el hombre domina a otro hombre para su mala.

10 Y también he visto a los impíos ser sepultados, los que entraban y salían del lugar santo, y que fueron pronto olvidadosa en la ciudad en que así habían actuado. También esto es vanidad. 11 Como la sentencia contra una mala obra no se ejecuta enseguidaa, por eso el corazón de los hijos de los hombres está en ellos entregado enteramente a hacer el malb. 12 Aunque el pecador haga el mal cien veces y alargue su vidaa, con todo, yo sé que les irá bien a los que temen a Diosb, a los que temen ante su presencia. 13 Pero no le irá bien al impíoa, ni alargará sus días como una sombrab, porque no teme ante la presencia de Dios. 14 Hay una vanidad que se hace sobre la tierra: hay justos a quienes les sucede1 conforme a las obras de los impíosa, y hay impíos a quienes les sucede2 conforme a las obras de los justosb. Digo que también esto es vanidad. 15 Por tanto yo alabé el placer, porque no hay nada bueno para el hombre bajo el sol sino comer, beber y divertirsea, y esto le acompañará en sus afanes1 en los días de su vida que Dios le haya dado bajo el sol.

16 Cuando apliqué mi corazón a conocer la sabiduría y a ver la tarea que ha sido hecha sobre la tierraa (aunque uno no durmiera1 ni de día ni de nocheb), 17 y vi toda la obra de Dios, decidí que el hombre no puede descubrir la obra que se ha hechoa bajo el sol. Aunque el hombre busque con afán, no la descubrirá; y aunque el sabio diga que la conoce, no puede descubrirlab.

Obey Rulers
Who is like the wise man?And who knows the interpretation of a matter?A man’s wisdom aillumines his face,And causes his bstern face to beam.

I counsel you to keep the command of the king because of the aoath before God by which you swore loyalty to him. 2+@Sam 21:7 Do not be in a hurry to aget out of his presence. Do not join in a malevolent matter, for the king will do whatever he pleases.

4 For the word of a king is authoritative and powerful,And awho will say to him, “What are you doing?”5 Whoever akeeps and observes a royal command will bexperience neither trouble nor misery;For a wise heart will know the 1proper time and appropriate procedure.6 For there is a 1proper time and appropriate procedure for every delight,aThough mankind’s misery and trouble lies heavily upon him who rebels against the king.7 For no one aknows what will happen;So who can tell him how and when it will happen?8 There is ano man who has power and authority over the wind to restrain the wind,Nor does he have authority over the day of death;There is no discharge from service during time of war,And bevil will not rescue those who actively seek to practice it.

All this I have seen while applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has exercised apower over others to their detriment.

10 So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out of the holy place but did not thereby escape their doom, and they are praised in spite of their evil and soon aforgotten in the city where they did such things. This too is futility (vanity, emptiness) . 11 Because the asentence against an evil act is not executed quickly, bthe hearts of the sons of men are fully set to do evil. 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life seemingly is aprolonged in spite of his wickedness, still I know that it will be bwell with those who reverently fear God, who fear and worship Him openly realizing His omnipresence and His power. Ps 37:11, 18, 19; Is 3:10, 11; Matt 25:34 13 But it will anot be well for the evil man, nor will he lengthen his days like a bshadow, because he does not fear God. Matt 25:41

14 There is a meaningless and futile thing which is done on the earth: that is, there are arighteous men whose gain is as though they were evil, and bevil men whose gain is as though they were righteous. I say that this too is futility (meaningless, vain) . 15 Then I commended pleasure and enjoyment, because aa man without God has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry, for this will stand by him in his toil through the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

16 When I aapplied my mind to know wisdom and to see the activities of mankind that take place upon the earth—how some men seem to bsleep neither day nor night— 17 and I saw all the work of God, I concluded that aman cannot discover the work that is done under the sun. Even though man may labor in seeking, he will not discover; and more than that, bthough a wise man thinks and claims he knows, he will not be able to find it out. Deut 29:29; Rom 11:33

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