Ecclesiastes 8:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 0 I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Be not panic-stricken and hasty to get out of his presence. Persist not in an evil thing, for he does whatever he pleases.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Be not hasty to go out of his presence; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

Common English Bible

³ Don’t be dismayed; leave his presence. Don’t linger in a harmful situation because he can do whatever he wants!

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ You should not hastily withdraw from his presence, nor should you remain in an evil work. For all that pleases him, he will do.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:

Ecclesiastes 8:3 Cross References

Genesis 47:9

0 And blessing the king, he went out.

Proverbs 14:29

A mild answer breaketh wrath: but a harsh word stirreth up fury.

Proverbs 24:21

8 Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.

Proverbs 30:31

And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

1 If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

Isaiah 48:4

2 Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.

Daniel 4:35

Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

Daniel 5:19

7 THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.