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Ecclesiastes 5:7-9
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Ecclesiastes 5:7-9
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
7 For when dreams increase, empty words grow many:[a] 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. 9 But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.[b]
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- Ecclesiastes 5:7 Or For in a multitude of dreams there is futility, and ruin in a flood of words
- Ecclesiastes 5:9 Or The profit of the land is among all of them; a cultivated field has a king
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
The Revised Standard Version of the Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1965, 1966 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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