“Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?”
Ecclesiastes 8:4 (KJV) |
Ecclesiastes 8:4
From Ecclesiastes 8, in the Book of Ecclesiastes (Old Testament).
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I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
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Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
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Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
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Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.