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For when dreams increase, empty words grow many:[a] but do you fear God.

If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them. But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:7 Or For in a multitude of dreams there is futility, and ruin in a flood of words
  2. Ecclesiastes 5:9 Or The profit of the land is among all of them; a cultivated field has a king

Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God.(A)

Riches Are Meaningless

If you see the poor oppressed(B) in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still. The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.

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