Ecclesiastes 8:4 · KJV
“Where the word of a king {is, there is} power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?”
— Ecclesiastes 8:4
Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. {shall...: Heb. shall know}
Ecclesiastes 8 — Context
I {counsel thee} to keep the king's commandment, and {that} in regard of the oath of God.
3Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
4Where the word of a king {is, there is} power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. {shall...: Heb. shall know}
6Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man {is} great upon him.
Cross References
Job 9:12
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? {hinder...: Heb. turn him away?}
Romans 13:1-4
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. {ordained: or, ordered}
Daniel 4:35
And all the inhabitants of the earth {are} reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and {among} the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Proverbs 20:2
The fear of a king {is} as the roaring of a lion: {whoso} provoketh him to anger sinneth {against} his own soul.
Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed {it}, Why hast thou made me thus? {repliest...: or, answerest again, or, disputest with God?}
Proverbs 19:12
The king's wrath {is} as the roaring of a lion; but his favour {is} as dew upon the grass.
Job 34:18-19
{Is it fit} to say to a king, {Thou art} wicked? {and} to princes, {Ye are} ungodly?
Daniel 3:15
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; {well}: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who {is} that God that shall deliver you out of my hands? {dulcimer: or, singing: Chaldee, symphony}
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