Ecclesiastes 10:6 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:6

6: if they give foolish people great authority, and if they fail to give people of proven worth their rightful place of dignity.

Proverbs 28:12

  1. When the godly succeed, everyone is glad. When the wicked take charge, people go into hiding.

Proverbs 29:2

  1. When the godly are in authority, the people rejoice. But when the wicked are in power, they groan.

Esther 3:1

  1. Some time later, King Xerxes promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite to prime minister, making him the most powerful official in the empire next to the king himself.

Psalms 12:8

  1. even though the wicked strut about, and evil is praised throughout the land.

Proverbs 28:28

  1. When the wicked take charge, people hide. When the wicked meet disaster, the godly multiply.

Judges 9:14

  1. "Then all the trees finally turned to the thornbush and said, `Come, you be our king!'
  2. And the thornbush replied, `If you truly want to make me your king, come and take shelter in my shade. If not, let fire come out from me and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'
  3. "Now make sure you have acted honorably and in good faith by making Abimelech your king, and that you have done right by Gideon and all of his descendants. Have you treated my father with the honor he deserves?
  4. For he fought for you and risked his life when he rescued you from the Midianites.
  5. But now you have revolted against my father and his descendants, killing his seventy sons on one stone. And you have chosen his slave woman's son, Abimelech, to be your king just because he is your relative.

1 Kings 12:13

  1. But Rehoboam spoke harshly to them, for he rejected the advice of the older counselors
  2. and followed the counsel of his younger advisers. He told the people, "My father was harsh on you, but I'll be even harsher! My father used whips on you, but I'll use scorpions!"

James 2:3

  1. If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, "You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor"--well,
  2. doesn't this discrimination show that you are guided by wrong motives?
  3. Listen to me, dear brothers and sisters. Hasn't God chosen the poor in this world to be rich in faith? Aren't they the ones who will inherit the Kingdom he promised to those who love him?
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