Ecclesiastes 5:8
If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness you see in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones [are] over them.
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In Context
7For in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear God.
9And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:15and God sends a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying, YHWH has seen, and is comforted concerning the calamity, and says to the messenger who [is] destroying, “Enough now, cease your hand.” And the messenger of YHWH is standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,
Job 20:19For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, || He has taken a house away violently, || And he does not build it.
Job 27:8For what [is] the hope of the profane, || When He cuts off? When God casts off his soul?
Psalms 12:5Because of the spoiling of the poor, || Because of the groaning of the needy, || Now I arise, says YHWH, || I set in safety [him who] breathes for it.
Psalms 58:10The righteous rejoices that he has seen vengeance, || He washes his steps in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 83:18And they know that You—Your Name [is] YHWH—By Yourself [are] 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 →