Ecclesiastes Chapter 10 verse 5 Holy Bible
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler:
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There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as an error [that] proceedeth from the ruler:
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.
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There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error that goeth out from the ruler,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Koheleth gives his personal experience of apparent confusion in the ordering of state affairs. There is an evil which I have seen under the sun. Power gets into the hands of an unwise man, and then errors are committed and injustice reigns. As an error which proceedeth from the ruler. The כְּ here is cash veritatis, which denotes not comparison, but resemblance, the idealization of the individual, the harmony of the particular with the general idea. The evil which he noticed appeared to be (he does not affirm that it is) a mistake caused by the ruler; it so presented itself to his mind. The caution observed in the statement may be owing partly to the tacit feeling that such blots occasioned difficulties in the view taken of the moral government of the world. He does not intend to refer to God under the appellation "Ruler." The Septuagint renders, Ὡς ἀκούσιον ἐξῆλθεν, "As if it came involuntarily;" Vulgate, to much the same effect, Quasi per errorem egrediens. The idea here is either gnat the evil is one not produced by any intentional action of the ruler, but resulting from human imperfection, or that what appears to be a mistake is not so really. But these interpretations are unsuitable. Those who adhere to the Solomonic authorship of our book see here a prophetic intimation of the evil of Jeroboam's rule, which evil proceeded from the sins of Solomon himself and his son Rehoboam. (So Wordsworth, Motais, etc.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Error.--The word is the same as at Ecclesiastes 10:6.