Ecclesiastes 8:2

I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment,.... Or, "to observe the mouth of the king" (w); what he says, and do according to it when it is agreeably to the law of God, and according to the laws of…

Oath - A reference to the oath of allegiance taken to Solomon at his accession to the throne (the margin of 1Ch 29:24).

Here is, I. An encomium of wisdom (Ecc 8:1), that is, of true piety, guided in all its exercises by prudence and discretion. The wise man is the good man, that knows God and glorifies him, knows…

I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment The words in Italics "counsel thee," have nothing answering to them in the Hebrew, and the grammar of the sentence does not allow us to translate with the…