Ecclesiastes 5:8
(5-7) If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent perverting of justice and righteousness in the state, marvel not at the matter; for one higher than the high watcheth, and there are higher than they.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
7(5-6) For through the multitude of dreams and vanities there are also many words; but fear thou God.
9(5-8) But the profit of a land every way is a king that maketh himself servant to the field.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:15And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was about to destroy, the LORD beheld, and He repented Him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel: 'It is enough; now stay thy hand.' And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Job 20:19For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, when God taketh away his soul?
Psalms 12:5(12-6) 'For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise', saith the LORD; 'I will set him in safety at whom they puff.'
Psalms 58:10(58-11) The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 83:18(83-19) That they may know that it is Thou alone whose name is the LORD, the Most High 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 →