Ecclesiastes 8:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ do not be terrified; go from his presence; do not delay when the matter is unpleasant, for he does whatever he pleases.

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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.

Ecclesiastes 8:3 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post, for calmness will undo great offenses.

Daniel 5:19

And because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed those he wanted to kill, kept alive those he wanted to keep alive, honored those he wanted to honor, and degraded those he wanted to degrade.

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

Proverbs 14:29

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Isaiah 48:4

Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

Proverbs 30:31

the strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king against whom none can stand.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

Proverbs 24:21

My child, fear the Lord and the king, and do not disobey either of them,