Ecclesiastes 8:4
for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
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Cross references
- Job 9:12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
- Romans 13:1–3 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment. For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority,
- Proverbs 20:2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.