Ecclesiastes 5:8

Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the king is dependent on the tilled field.

Brenton Septuagint

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 shouldest see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter: for there is a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them.

9He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? this is also vanity.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:15And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord saw, and repented for the evil, and said to the angel that was destroying, Let it suffice thee; withhold thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite.

Job 20:19For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built it not.

Job 27:8For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?

Psalms 12:5lest at any time mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved.

Psalms 58:10I will keep my strength, looking to thee; for thou, O God, art my helper.

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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