◄ Ecclesiastes 10:4 ►
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Good News Translation
If your ruler becomes angry with you, do not hand in your resignation; serious wrongs may be pardoned if you keep calm.

New Revised Standard Version
If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post, for calmness will undo great offenses.

Contemporary English Version
Don't give up your job when your boss gets angry. If you stay calm, you'll be forgiven.

New American Bible
Should the anger of a ruler burst upon you, do not yield your place; for calmness abates great offenses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.

leave

Ecclesiastes 8:3 Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:

for

1 Samuel 25:24 And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and hear the words of thy servant.

Proverbs 25:15 By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.

Context
Wisdom and Folly
…3Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools. 4If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.5There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the face of the prince:…
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:24
And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and hear the words of thy servant.

Proverbs 15:18
A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred up.

Proverbs 25:15
By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.

Ecclesiastes 8:3
Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:

Ecclesiastes 10:5
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the face of the prince:

Ecclesiastes 10:3
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