Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see poor people somewhere being oppressed, or truth and justice violated, don't be shocked at it, for every official is responsible to others higher up, and there are officials over them as well.
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9However, what the land produces is for everyone—even the king benefits from what is grown.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:15God also sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But just as the angel was about to destroy it, the Lord saw it, and he relented from causing such a disaster. He told the destroying angel, “That's enough. You can stop now.” Right then the angel of the Lord was standing beside the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Job 20:19For they have oppressed and abandoned the poor; they have seized houses they did not build.
Job 27:8For what hope do those who reject God have when he cuts them down, when God brings their lives to an end?
Psalms 12:5“Because of the violence the helpless have suffered, and because of the groans of the poor, I will rise up to defend them,” says the Lord. “I will give them the protection they have been longing for.”
Psalms 58:10Those who live right will be happy when they see there is punishment; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 83:18Let them understand that you alone, called the Lord, are the Most High who rules over all the earth.
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 →