Ecclesiastes 8:3 - English Standard Version 2016 Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) Be not hasty to go out of his presence; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. Common English Bible 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 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 Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him: |
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
My son, fear the Lord and the king, and do not join with those who do otherwise,
the strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king whose army is with him.
If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.
Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
And because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled.