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Ecclesiastes 8:4

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

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  1. Ecclesiastes 8:2

    I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

  2. Ecclesiastes 8:3

    Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

  3. Ecclesiastes 8:5

    Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.

  4. Ecclesiastes 8:6

    Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.