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Eccl. 10:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave notf thy place; forg yielding pacifieth great offences.

Eccl. 8:3• ³Be not hasty to go out of his sight; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatever pleaseth him, (Eccl. 8:3)

1 Sam. 25:24• ²⁴and fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let the iniquity be; but let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear the words of thy handmaid. (1 Sam. 25:24)

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Eccl. 8:3• ³Be not hasty to go out of his sight; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatever pleaseth him, (Eccl. 8:3)

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1 Sam. 25:24‑44• ²⁴and fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let the iniquity be; but let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear the words of thy handmaid.
²⁵Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I thy handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
²⁶And now, my lord, as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah has restrained thee from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
²⁷And now this blessing which thy bondmaid has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men that follow my lord.
²⁸I pray thee, forgive the transgression of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a lasting house; because my lord fights the battles of Jehovah, and evil has not been found in thee all thy days.
²⁹And if a man is risen up to pursue thee and to seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out from the hollow of the sling.
³⁰And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah shall do to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning thee, and shall appoint thee ruler over Israel,
³¹that this shall be no stumbling-block to thee, nor offence of heart for my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall deal well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.
³²And David said to Abigail, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me.
³³And blessed be thy discernment, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
³⁴But indeed, as Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, who has restrained me from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any male.
³⁵So David received of her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
³⁶And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
³⁷And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
³⁸And it came to pass in about ten days that Jehovah smote Nabal, and he died.
³⁹And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; but Jehovah has returned Nabal's evil upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her as his wife.
⁴⁰And the servants of David came to Abigail to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to thee, to take thee as his wife.
⁴¹And she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thy handmaid be a bondwoman to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
⁴²And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
⁴³David had also taken Ahinoam of Jizreel; and they became, even both of them, his wives.
⁴⁴But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. (1 Sam. 25:24‑44)

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Prov. 25:15• ¹⁵By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. (Prov. 25:15)

• Yielding to the powers above rather than rebelling against them, marks the path of wisdom. (“Ecclesiastes 10” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for quietness pacifieth great offencesc.

JND Translation Notes

Or "gentleness allayeth great sins." see Prov. 15.4.