Ecclesiastes 5:8

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

If thou seest false challenges of needy men, and violent dooms, and that rightfulness is destroyed in the province, wonder thou not on this doing; for another is higher than an high man, and also other men be more high above these men;

Cross References

2 Chronicles 26:10

Also he builded towers in the wilderness, and digged full many cisterns; for he had many beasts, as well in the field places, as in the vastness of desert. Also he had vineries [or vines], and tillers of vines in the hills, and in Carmel or the great mountains; for he was a man given to earth-tilling.

Job 24:23

God gave to him a place of penance, and he misuseth that into pride; soothly the eyes of God be beholding in the ways of that man.

Psalm 12:5

For the wretchedness of needy men, and for the wailing of poor men; now I shall rise up, saith the Lord. I shall set him in health; I shall do trustily in him.

Psalm 55:9

Lord, cast thou down, [and] part thou the tongues of them; for I saw wickedness and against-saying in the city.

Psalm 82:1

The psalm of Asaph. God stood in the synagogue of gods; forsooth he deemeth gods in the middle.

Psalm 83:18

And know they, that Lord is name to thee; thou alone art the Highest in every land.

Psalm 95:3

For God is a great Lord, and a great King above all gods; for the Lord shall not put away his people.

Proverbs 22:16

He that falsely challengeth a poor man, to increase his own riches, shall give to a richer man, and he shall be needy.

Proverbs 24:12

If thou sayest, Strengths or Strong-holds suffice not; he that is [the] beholder of the heart, understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall yield to a man after his works.

Proverbs 8:17

I love them that love me; and they that wake early to me, shall find me.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I saw under [the] sun unfaithfulness in the place of doom; and wickedness in the place of rightfulness.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

I turned me to other things, and I saw false challenges, that be done under the sun, and the tears of the guiltless, and no man a comforter; and that they destitute, either forsaken, of the help of all men, may not against-stand the violence of them.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

and furthermore the king of all earth commandeth to the servant.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

False challenge troubleth a wise man, and it shall lose the strength of his heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

I beheld all these things, and I gave mine heart in all works, that be done under the sun. Sometime a man is lord of a man, to his evil.

Isaiah 10:12

And it shall be, when the Lord hath [ful] filled all his works in the hill [or the mount] of Zion and in Jerusalem, I shall visit on the fruit of the great doing heart of the king of Assur, and on the glory of the highness of his eyes.

Isaiah 3:15

Why all-break ye my people, and grind together the faces of poor men? saith the Lord God of hosts.

Isaiah 37:36

Forsooth the angel of the Lord went out, and killed an hundred thousand and fourscore and five thousand in the tents of Assyrians; and they rose early, and lo! all men were [the] carrions of dead men.

Isaiah 5:7

Forsooth the vinery [or vineyard] of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah be the delightable burgeoning of him. I abode, that it shall make doom, and lo! wickedness; and that it should do rightfulness [or rightwiseness], and lo! cry.

Isaiah 57:15

For the Lord high, and enhanced, saith these things, that dwelleth in everlastingness, and his holy name in high place, and that dwelleth in holy-ness, and with a contrite, either full sorry, and meek spirit, that he quicken the spirit of meek men, and quicken the heart of contrite men.

Ezekiel 18:18

For his father made false challenge, and did violence to his brother, and wrought evil in the midst of his people, lo! he is dead in his wickedness.

Amos 5:12

For I knew your great trespasses many, and your strong sins; enemies of the rightwise man, taking a gift, and bearing down poor men in the gate.

Amos 6:12

Whether horses may run in stones, either it may be eared with wild oxen? For ye turned doom into bitterness, and the fruit of rightwiseness into wormwood.

Micah 2:9

Ye casted the women of my people out of the house of their delights; from the little children of them ye took away my praising without end.

Zechariah 8:6

The Lord of hosts saith these things, Though it shall be seen as hard to do before the eyes of the remnants of this people in those days, whether before mine eyes it shall be hard to do, saith the Lord of hosts?

Malachi 3:5

And I shall come to you in doom, and I shall be a swift witness to mis-doers, either enchanters of devil’s craft, and to adulterers, and to forsworn men, and that falsely challenge the hire of an hired man, and widows, and fatherless children, and oppress a pilgrim, and dreaded not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Luke 1:32

This [or He] shall be great, and he shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give to him the seat of David, his father,

Luke 1:35

And the angel answered, and said to her, The Holy Ghost shall come from above into thee, and the virtue of the Highest shall overshadow thee; and therefore that holy thing that shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God.

Luke 1:76

And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways.

Acts 12:23

And anon an angel of the Lord smote him, for he had not given honour to God; and he was wasted of worms, and died.

Romans 11:33

O! the highness of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowing, of God; how incomprehensible be his dooms, and his ways be unsearchable.

James 2:13

For why doom without mercy is to him, that doeth no mercy; but mercy above raiseth doom.

1 Peter 4:12

Most dear brethren, do not ye go in pilgrimage in fervour, that is made to you to temptation, as if any new thing befall to you;

1 John 3:13

Brethren, do not ye wonder, if the world hateth you.