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Ecclesiastes 5:6-8
Revised Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 5:6-8
Revised Standard Version
6 Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger[a] that it was a mistake; why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
7 For when dreams increase, empty words grow many:[b] but do you fear God.
8 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.
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- Ecclesiastes 5:6 Or angel
- Ecclesiastes 5:7 Or For in a multitude of dreams there is futility, and ruin in a flood of words
Revised Standard Version (RSV)
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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