Ecclesiastes 5:8

Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

In Context

7If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

9A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:15And he sent an angel to Jerusalem, to strike it: and as he was striking it, the Lord beheld, and took pity for the greatness of the evil: and said to the angel that destroyed: It is enough, now stop thy hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the thrashing

Job 20:19Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

Psalms 12:5Who have said: We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is Lord over us?

Psalms 58:10Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

Psalms 83:18Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.

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 →

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