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]