Charles Ellicott Commentary Ecclesiastes 8:4

"For the king`s word [hath] power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?" — Ecclesiastes 8:4 (ASV)

Power. —The word used here and Ecclesiastes 5:8, only occurs again in the Aramaic 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 Wisdom of Solomon 12:12).