Ecclesiastes 5:8

Modern King James Version

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 26:10

And he built towers in the desert, and dug many wells. For he had many cattle, both in the low country and in the plains. He also had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel. For he loved the earth.

Job 24:23

He gives safety to him, and he rests on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

Psalm 55:9

Swallow up, O Jehovah, and divide their tongues; for I have seen violence and fighting in the city.

Psalm 82:1

A Psalm of Asaph. God stands in the congregation of the mighty; in the midst of the gods He judges.

Psalm 83:18

so that men may know that Your name is JEHOVAH, that You alone are the Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 95:3

For Jehovah is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Proverbs 22:16

He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, Behold, we did not know; does not He who searches the heart consider it? And the Keeper of your soul, does He know? And He repays to a man according to his works.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me; and those who seek me early shall find me.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And again I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

And the advantage of a land, it is for all; even a king has a field being tilled.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a bribe destroys the heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen, and I gave my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

Isaiah 10:12

And it will be, when the Lord has broken off all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean? You crush My people and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning, and behold! They were all dead corpses.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!

Isaiah 57:15

For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity; whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Ezekiel 18:18

His father, because he extorted, robbed his brother by robbery, and did what is not good among his people; lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

Amos 5:12

For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock;

Micah 2:9

You have thrown the wives of My people out from the house of her delight; from their children you have taken away My majesty forever.

Zechariah 8:6

So says Jehovah of Hosts: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, will it also be marvelous in My eyes, says Jehovah of Hosts?

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Luke 1:32

He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest. And the Lord God shall give Him the throne of His father David.

Luke 1:35

And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come on you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you. Therefore also that Holy One which will be born of you shall be called Son of God.

Luke 1:76

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest, for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

Acts 12:23

And immediately the angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and gave up the spirit.

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!

James 2:13

For he who has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy, and mercy exults over judgment.

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you,

1 John 3:13

Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.