Roma 13:7

13:7 Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Roma 13:1

Submission to Civil Government

13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God’s appointment, ¹  and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

Pengkhotbah 2:17

2:17 So I loathed ²  life ³  because what

happens ⁴  on earth ⁵  seems awful to me;

for all the benefits of wisdom ⁶  are futile – like chasing the wind.

[13:1]  ¹ tn Grk “by God.”

[2:17]  ² tn Or “I hated.”

[2:17]  ³ tn The term הַחַיִּים (hakhayyim, “life”) functions as a metonymy of association, that is, that which is associated with life, that is, the profitlessness and futility of human secular achievement.

[2:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “the deed that is done.” The root עָשָׂה (’asah, “to do”) is repeated in הַמַּעֲשֶׂה שֶׁנַּעֲשָׂה (hamma’aseh shenna’asah, “the deed that is done”) for emphasis. Here, the term “deed” does not refer to human accomplishment, as in 2:1-11, but to the fact of death that destroys any relative advantage of wisdom over folly (2:14a-16). Qoheleth metaphorically describes death as a “deed” that is “done” to man.

[2:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “under the sun.”

[2:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “all,” referring here to the relative advantage of wisdom.