Ecclesiastes 5:7
If you see false accusations against the indigent, and violent judgments, and subverted justice in the government, do not be surprised over this situation. For those in high places have others who are higher, and there are still others, more eminent, over these.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
8But finally, there is the King who rules over the entire earth, which is subject to him.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:14I have learned that all the works which God has made continue on, in perpetuity. We are not able to add anything, nor to take anything away, from those things which God has made in order that he may be feared.
Ecclesiastes 5:3If you have vowed anything to God, you should not delay to repay it. And whatever you have vowed, render it. But an unfaithful and foolish promise displeases him.
Ecclesiastes 8:9I have considered all these things, and I have applied my heart to all the works which are being done under the sun. Sometimes one man rules over another to his own harm.
Ecclesiastes 12:13Let us all listen together to the end of the discourse. Fear God, and observe his commandments. This is everything for man.
Matthew 12:36But I say to you, that for every idle word which men will have spoken, they shall render an account in the day of judgment.
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 →