Ecclesiastes 5:8 - Y'all Version Bible

⁸ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ If you see the oppression of the poor and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in the state or province, do not marvel at the matter. [Be sure that there are those who will attend to it] for a higher [official] than the high is observing, and higher ones are over them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.

Common English Bible

⁸ If you witness the poor being oppressed or the violation of what is just and right in some territory, don’t be surprised because a high official watches over another, and yet others stand over them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But finally, there is the King who rules over the entire earth, which is subject to him.

Ecclesiastes 5:8 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 26:10

He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the lowlands and in the plains. 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 the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says YHWH. “I will provide the safety they desire.”

Psalm 55:9

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

Psalm 82:1

God presides in the divine assembly. Hᴇ judges among the gods.

Psalm 83:18

that they may know that you alone, whose name is YHWH, are the Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 95:3

For YHWH 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, “But we didn’t know this,” doesn’t ʜᴇ who weighs the hearts consider it? Doesn’t ʜᴇ who keeps your soul know it? Will he not render to every person according their 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. Look, 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 person foolish, and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

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

Isaiah 10:12

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

Isaiah 3:15

Why do y’all crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, YHWH Almighty.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the Angel of YHWH went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people arose early in the morning, there were all dead bodies!

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of YHWH Almighty is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah ʜɪꜱ delightful plant. Hᴇ looked for justice, but saw oppression, for righteousness, heard a cry of distress.

Isaiah 57:15

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “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 what is not good among his people, he will surely die in his iniquity.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are y’all’s offenses, and how great are y’all’s sins— Oppressing the just, taking a bribe, turning away the needy in the courts.

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on cliffs? Can one plow there with oxen? But y’all have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,

Micah 2:9

Y’all are forcing the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

Zechariah 8:6

YHWH Almighty says: “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 YHWH Almighty.

Malachi 3:5

I will come near to y’all for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, and those who exploit laborers, widows, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says YHWH Almighty.

Luke 1:32

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. 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 Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the one who is to be born will be holy and will be called the Son of God.

Luke 1:76

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare ʜɪꜱ ways,

Acts 12:23

Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he didn’t give glory to God. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

Romans 11:33

Oh the depth of the riches of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are ʜɪꜱ judgments, and untraceable ʜɪꜱ ways!

James 2:13

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

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, y’all shouldn’t be surprised by the fiery trial that has come to test y’all, as though a strange thing were happening to you*.

1 John 3:13

Y’all shouldn’t marvel, my siblings, if the world hates y’all.