“Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.”
The counsel not to persist in an evil course when the king is displeased, and to remember that royal speech is powerful, acknowledges the danger of alienating authority. The power of a king's word suggests that one cannot afford to appear in opposition to sovereignty. This verse maintains the realism about power that characterizes Ecclesiastes throughout.
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