Ecclesiastes 8:4
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
For the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
In context
2 Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.
3 Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.
4 For the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
5 Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.
6 For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
Ecclesiastes 8:4 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
- KJV King James Version
- Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
- WEB World English Bible
- for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
- ASV American Standard Version
- For the king’s word hath power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Where the word of a king [is] power [is], and who saith to him, 'What dost thou?'
- DBY Darby Translation
- because the word of a king is power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
- WBS Webster Bible
- Where the word of a king is , there is power: and who may say to him, what doest thou?