Here in Ecclesiastes 8:1-9 Solomon gives a very bsic instruction for living wisely - Obey the King. It is arguable that this instruction was even harder for contemporary readers of this passage than it is even for me today in America in 2024. There are laws that are written, and there are rules that are unwritten, and there are politics and power, and that means that there is the ever-present possibility of being bumped off. Yet, Solomon points us to this crucial fact. God has made oaths to the king, which He Himself will uphold. So we ought to walk wisely before our rulers.
