4Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
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Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. …
And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here is, I. An encomium of wisdom (Eccl. 8:1), that is, of true piety, guided in all its exercises by prudence and discretion. The wise man is the good man, that knows God and glorifies him, knows himself and does well for himself; his wisdom is a great happiness to him, for, 1. It advances him above his neighbours, and makes him more excellent than they: Who is as the wise man ? Note, Heavenly wi…
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