Ecclesiastes 5:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ KEEP YOUR foot [give your mind to what you are doing] when you go [as Jacob to sacred Bethel] to the house of God. For to draw near to hear and obey is better than to give the sacrifice of fools [carelessly, irreverently] too ignorant to know that they are doing evil. [Gen. 35:1-4; Exod. 3:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

Common English Bible

¹ Watch your steps when you go to God’s house. It’s more acceptable to listen than to offer the fools’ sacrifice—they have no idea that they’re acting wrongly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ You should not speak anything rashly, nor should your heart be hasty to present a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth. For this reason, let your words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5:1 Cross References

2 Chronicles 26:16

1 And Ozias the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a house apart being full of the leprosy, for which he had been cast out of the house of the Lord. And Joatham his son governed the king's house, and judged the people of the land.

Job 11:2

Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?

Job 22:12

7 Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:

Psalm 89:7

4 justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

Exodus 3:5

And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works:

Exodus 30:18

1 Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by successions.

Proverbs 10:19

6 As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that sent him.

Proverbs 15:8

5 All the days of the poor are evil: a secure mind is like a continual feast.

Proverbs 21:27

The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.

Isaiah 66:3

1 That you may suck, and be filled with the breasts of her consolations: that you may milk out, and flow with delights, from the abundance of her glory.

Leviticus 10:3

The Lord also said to Aaron:

Acts 10:33

1 Not to all the people, but to witnesses preordained by God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he arose again from the dead;

Acts 17:11

9 And taking him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying: May we know what this new doctrine is, which thou speakest of?

1 Corinthians 11:22

1 But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

Hebrews 10:26

5 Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward.

James 1:19

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with respect of persons.

Joshua 5:15

And when the voice of the trumpet shall give a longer and broken tune, and shall sound in your ears, all the people shall shout together with a very great shout, and the walls of the city shall fall to the ground, and they shall enter in every one at the place against which they shall stand.