Ecclesiastes 8:4
World English Bible (WEB)
for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
In context
2 I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.
3 Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
4 for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
5 Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
6 For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
Ecclesiastes 8:4 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- for the king’s word is supreme. 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?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For the king’s word is supreme, and 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?