Ecclesiastes 5:6-9

The Message

⁶Don’t let your mouth make a total sinner of you.
When called to account, you won’t get by with
“Sorry, I didn’t mean it.”
Why risk provoking God to angry retaliation?

⁷But against all illusion and fantasy and empty talk
There’s always this rock foundation: Fear God!

A Salary of Smoke

^8-9Don’t be too upset when you see the poor kicked around, and justice and right violated all over the place. Exploitation filters down from one petty official to another. There’s no end to it, and nothing can be done about it. But the good earth doesn’t cheat anyone—even a bad king is honestly served by a field.

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