Ecclesiastes 5:7
\5:8\If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
In Context
8\5:9\It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:14I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 5:3\5:4\When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.
Ecclesiastes 8:9All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.
Ecclesiastes 12:13This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.
Matthew 12:36And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:5-9
The Obligation of a Vow. 4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. 5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.… Read the whole commentary →