Ecclesiastes 8:4

New Living Translation

His command is backed by great power. No one can resist or question it.

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:4

But the king insisted that they take the census, so Joab and the commanders of the army went out to count the people of Israel.

1 Kings 1:30

your son Solomon will be the next king and will sit on my throne this very day, just as I vowed to you before the Lord, the God of Israel.”

1 Kings 2:25

So King Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada to execute him, and Adonijah was put to death.

1 Kings 2:46

Then, at the king’s command, Benaiah son of Jehoiada took Shimei outside and killed him. So the kingdom was now firmly in Solomon’s grip.

Ezra 6:13

Tattenai, governor of the province west of the Euphrates River, and Shethar-bozenai and their colleagues complied at once with the command of King Darius.

Job 9:12

If he snatches someone in death, who can stop him? Who dares to ask, ‘What are you doing?’

Exodus 1:18

So the king of Egypt called for the midwives. “Why have you done this?” he demanded. “Why have you allowed the boys to live?”

Proverbs 19:12

The king’s anger is like a lion’s roar, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

The king’s fury is like a lion’s roar; to rouse his anger is to risk your life.

Proverbs 30:31

the strutting rooster, the male goat, a king as he leads his army.

Daniel 3:15

I will give you one more chance to bow down and worship the statue I have made when you hear the sound of the musical instruments. But if you refuse, you will be thrown immediately into the blazing furnace. And then what god will be able to rescue you from my power?”

Daniel 4:35

All the people of the earth are nothing compared to him. He does as he pleases among the angels of heaven and among the people of the earth. No one can stop him or say to him, ‘What do you mean by doing these things?’

Romans 9:20

No, don’t say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, “Why have you made me like this?”