Ecclesiastes 8:3

Modern English Version

Do not be hasty to leave his presence. Do not take a stand in an unpleasant matter, for he does whatever pleases him.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. My days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Proverbs 14:29

He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty in temper exalts folly.

Proverbs 24:21

My son, fear the Lord and the king, and do not associate with those given to change,

Proverbs 30:31

the strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king whose army is with him.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If the angry spirit of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your position, for calmness pacifies great offenses.

Isaiah 48:4

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

Daniel 4:35

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. And no one can stay His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?”

Daniel 5:19

And for the majesty that He gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he slaughtered, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he set up, and whom he would, he put down.