Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
7For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” the LORD’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Psalms 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
Psalms 58:10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
Psalms 83:18that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, 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 →