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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 8:4 - Basic English
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ec 8:4 |
Basic English |
The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are 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 And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
9 Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?
13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
12 If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?
12 For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
16 For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.