Ecclesiastes 5:8-10

International Standard Version

The Use and Abuse of Wealth

⁸ Don’t be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts^[a] in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them. ⁹ Also, the increase of the land belongs to everyone; the king himself is served by his^[b] field.