Ecclesiastes 5:7

Catholic Public Domain Version

If you see false accusations against the indigent, and violent judgments, and subverted justice in the government, do not be surprised over this situation. For those in high places have others who are higher, and there are still others, more eminent, over these.

Cross References

Proverbs 23:17

Let not your heart compete with sinners. But be in the fear of the Lord all day long.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us all listen together to the end of the discourse. Fear God, and observe his commandments. This is everything for man.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I have learned that all the works which God has made continue on, in perpetuity. We are not able to add anything, nor to take anything away, from those things which God has made in order that he may be feared.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I saw under the sun: instead of judgment, impiety, and instead of justice, iniquity.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

If you have vowed anything to God, you should not delay to repay it. And whatever you have vowed, render it. But an unfaithful and foolish promise displeases him.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

Do not act with great impiety, and do not choose to be foolish, lest you die before your time.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

But although a sinner may do evil of himself one hundred times, and by patience still endure, I realize that it will be well with those who fear God, who revere his face.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

So, may it not go well with the impious, and may his days not be prolonged. And let those who do not fear the face of the Lord pass away like a shadow.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

I have considered all these things, and I have applied my heart to all the works which are being done under the sun. Sometimes one man rules over another to his own harm.

Matthew 12:36

But I say to you, that for every idle word which men will have spoken, they shall render an account in the day of judgment.