Quotes about Power
She girds herself with strength and shows that her arms are strong.
- Proverbs 31:17
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
- Ecclesiastes 4:1
And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
- Ecclesiastes 4:12
The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
- Ecclesiastes 5:9
Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.
- Ecclesiastes 6:10
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
- Ecclesiastes 7:13
Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.
- Ecclesiastes 7:19
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
All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
- Ecclesiastes 8:9
There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.
- Ecclesiastes 9:14
The calm words of the wise are heeded over the shouts of a ruler among fools.
- Ecclesiastes 9:17