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ECCLESIASTES ยท Chapter 5
5:1 Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready
to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that
they do evil.
5:2 Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to
utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore
let your words be few.
5:3 For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's
voice is known by multitude of words.
5:4 When you vow a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he has no
pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed.
5:5 Better is it that you should not vow, than that you should vow
and not pay.
5:6 Suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say you
before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at
your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers
vanities: but fear you God.
5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of
judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that
is higher than the highest regards; and there be higher than they.
5:9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is
served by the field.
5:10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he
that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
5:11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what
good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with
their eyes?
5:12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or
much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
5:13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely,
riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
5:14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he bring forths a
son, and there is nothing in his hand.
5:15 As he came out of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to
go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry
away in his hand.
5:16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so
shall he go: and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?
5:17 All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow
and wrath with his sickness.
5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to
eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he takes
under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him: for it is
his portion.
5:19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has
given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice
in his labour; this is the gift of God.
5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God
answers him in the joy of his heart.
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