Quotes about Authority
Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.
- Proverbs 29:26
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
- Proverbs 30:17
a strutting rooster; a he-goat; and a king with his army around him.
- Proverbs 30:31
I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
- Ecclesiastes 1:12
I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
- Ecclesiastes 4:15
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8
The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
- Ecclesiastes 5:9
Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.
- Ecclesiastes 7:19
Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.
- Ecclesiastes 8:2
Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.
- Ecclesiastes 8:3
For the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
- Ecclesiastes 8:4
As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8