3 Be not hasty to go out │ From His presence canst thou go? of his sight: stand not in │ Do not rest on any evil word, an evil thing; for he doeth │ for all that His providence whatsoever pleaseth him. │ ordains He does; (3.) =Do not hasten= (this the LXX. and Syriac join on to the preceding verse, against the accentuation of the Masorets, and this makes better sense) =from his face thou shalt go= (but as ‘face’ is the emphatic word, it is clear that the clause is in the nature of a question, or rather with a note of admiration, _i.e._ ‘From his face are you going!’), =do not stand= (‘abide,’ or ‘stay’) =in a reason which is an evil one for all he provides= (יחפץ, the verb, of which חפץ is the root, and which invariably means ‘Divine providence’ in this book) =he does= (he always acts, therefore, according to the pleasure of his Divine providence). 4 Where the word of a king │ in Whose royal word is _is_, _there is_ power: and │ authority, and who dare say to who may say unto him, What │ Him, What doest Thou? doest thou? │ (4.) =In whom= (or ‘in which,’ for it refers back to the whole idea of God’s providence) =the matter of a king= is =powerful= (_i.e._ a power, ‘matter,’ דבר as usual being taken in its technical sense of the matter reasoned about and the matter itself. The LXX. invert the order of the words――a very unusual proceeding with them: it is, however, to be observed that B. omits λαλεῖ, the word out of place), =and who shall say to him, What doest thou?= 5 Whoso keepeth the │ Whoso keeps the commandment commandment ¹shall feel no │ will not know a reason which evil thing: and a wise man’s │ leads to wrong. For a wise heart discerneth both time and │ heart does know that there is judgment. │ a time and a judgment; │ ¹ _Hebrew_ shall know. │ (5.) =One keeping the command= (a participle, that which is commanded) =does not know a matter= (as above) which is =evil, and time and judgment knows= (repeated; thus the exact meaning is, ‘but time and judgment’) =the heart of a wise man= (‘does know’). 6 ¶ Because to every purpose │ because to every providence there is time and judgment, │ there is a time and a judgment; therefore the misery of man │ because also, the wrong of _is_ great upon him. │ Humanity is great upon him;