Ecclesiastes 5:8
King James VersionSource notes
“If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for higher than the highest regardeth; and higher than they.”
Context
5Better that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
7For in the multitude of dreams and many words also vanities: but fear thou God.
8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for higher than the highest regardeth; and higher than they.
9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king is served by the field.
10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this also vanity.
11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good to the owners thereof, saving the beholding with their eyes?