Ecclesiastes 8:4 - English Standard Version 2016

⁴ For the word of the king is supreme, and who may 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

But the king’s word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.

1 Kings 1:30

as I swore to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,’ even so will I do this day.”

1 Kings 2:25

So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he struck him down, and he died.

1 Kings 2:46

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

Ezra 6:13

Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered.

Job 9:12

Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Exodus 1:18

So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?”

Proverbs 19:12

A king’s wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.

Proverbs 30:31

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

Daniel 3:15

Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”

Daniel 4:35

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?”

Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”