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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 8:4 - Hebrew Names
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ec 8:4 |
Hebrew Names |
for the king's word is supreme. Who can say to him, "What are you doing?" |
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King James |
Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
God's very "word" is "power." So the gospel word (Rom 1:16; Heb 4:12).
who may say, &c.-- (Job 9:12; Job 33:13; Isa 45:9; Dan 4:35). Scripture does not ascribe such arbitrary power to earthly kings. |
35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker-- a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'
13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Messiah, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.