Ecclesiastes 8:3

Don't rashly abandon your duty before a ruler or stubbornly pursue evil, since the king holds real power. Wisdom counsels patience and prudence in the face of authority.

Cross-references · 11

• Eccl 10:4If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
• Acts 5:8–9Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” She said, “Yes, for so much.”
• Dan 5:19and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.
• Prov 14:29He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
• Dan 4:35All 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 no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
• Isa 48:4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
• Prov 30:31the greyhound, the male goat also; and the king against whom there is no rising up.
• 1 Kgs 1:50–52Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar.
• Prov 16:14–15The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
• Jer 44:16–17“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
• 1 Kgs 2:21–24She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”

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