Ecclesiastes 5:8
When you see the poor being oppressed and robbed of just and right treatment in your province, do not be astonished as if no one knows, because there are people in power who watch those under them, and there are even higher ones over them.
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In Context
7For in many dreams, as in many words, there is meaningless vapor. So fear God.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy it, Yahweh watched and changed his mind about the harm. He said to the destroying angel, “Enough! Now draw back your hand.” At that time the angel of Yahweh was standing at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Job 20:19For he has oppressed and neglected poor people; 1 he has violently taken away houses that he did not build. 1
Job 27:8For what is the hope of a godless man when God cuts him off, 1 when God takes away his life? 1
Psalms 12:5“Because of violence against the poor, because of the groans of the needy, 1 I will arise,” says Yahweh. 1 “I will provide the safety for which they long.” 1
Psalms 58:10The righteous will rejoice when he sees God's vengeance; 1 he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, 1
Psalms 83:18Then they will know that you alone, Yahweh, 1 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 →