Power. — The word used here and Ecclesiastes 5:8, only occurs again in the Chaldee part of Daniel. In the latter part of the Hebrew verse is one of the many reminiscences of the work of Job (Job 9:12; see also Wis. 12:12).
Related Commentaries of Ecclesiastes 8:4
Ecclesiastes 8:4
4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?