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Ecclesiastes 5:7

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  1. Ecclesiastes 5:5

    Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

  2. Ecclesiastes 5:6

    Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

  3. Ecclesiastes 5:8

    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.

  4. Ecclesiastes 5:9

    Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.