Ecclesiastes 5:8

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 26:10

He built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain: [and he had] farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.

Job 24:23

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

Psalm 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.*

Psalm 55:9

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Psalm 83:18

that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Elyon over all the earth.

Psalm 95:3

For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.

Proverbs 22:16

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, *Behold, we didn't know this;* doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Isaiah 10:12

Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Tziyon and on Yerushalayim, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Ashur, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?* says the Lord, the LORD of Armies.

Isaiah 37:36

The angel of the LORD went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Ashur. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Yisra'el, and the men of Yehudah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

Micah 2:9

You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

Zechariah 8:6

Thus says the LORD of Armies: *If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?* says the LORD of Armies.

Malachi 3:5

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me,* says the LORD of Armies.

Luke 1:32

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Elyon. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,

Luke 1:35

The angel answered her, *The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Elyon will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

Luke 1:76

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Elyon, for you will go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways,

Acts 12:23

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Romans 11:33

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

1 John 3:13

Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.