Ecclesiastes 8:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴ For the king’s word is authoritative, and who can say to him, ‘What are you doing? ’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For the word of a king is authority and power, and who can say to him, What are you doing?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ For the king’s word hath power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Common English Bible

⁴ Because the king’s word has authority, no one can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And his word is filled with authority. Neither is anyone able to say to him: "Why are you acting this way?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why dost thou so?

Ecclesiastes 8:4 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 24:4

Yet the king’s order prevailed over Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army left the king’s presence to register the troops of Israel.

1 Kings 1:30

just as I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne in my place,  that is exactly what I will do this very day.’

1 Kings 2:25

Then King Solomon dispatched Benaiah son of Jehoiada,  who struck down Adonijah, and he died.

1 Kings 2:46

Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck Shimei down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in Solomon’s hand.

Ezra 6:13

Then Tattenai governor of the region west of the River Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their colleagues  diligently carried out what King Darius had decreed.

Job 9:12

If he snatches something, who can stop   him? Who can ask him, ‘What are you doing? ’

Exodus 1:18

So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, ‘Why have you done this and let the boys live? ’

Proverbs 19:12

A king’s rage is like the roaring of a lion, but his favour is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion; anyone who provokes him endangers himself.

Proverbs 30:31

a strutting cockerel;  a goat; and a king at the head of his army.

Daniel 3:15

Now if you’re ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music, fall down and worship the statue I made. But if you don’t worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire #– #and who is the god who can rescue you from my power? ’

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and he does what he wants  with the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can block his hand or say to him, ‘What have you done? ’

Romans 9:20

On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?  Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this? ’