Keep thy
foot when thou goest 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.
02 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine
heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for
God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore
let thy words be few.
03 For a dream cometh through the multitude of
business; and a fool's voice is known by
multitude of words.
04 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to
pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay
that which thou hast vowed.
05 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than
that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
06 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to
sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it
was an error: wherefore should God be angry at
thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
07 For in the multitude of dreams and many words
there are also divers vanities: but fear thou
God.
08 If thou seest 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 regardeth; and there
be higher than they.
09 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all:
the king himself is served by the field.
10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied
with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with
increase: this is also vanity.
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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?
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.
13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under
the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners
thereof to their hurt.
14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and
he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his
hand.
15 As he came forth 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.
16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all
points as he came, so shall he go: and what
profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and
he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
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 taketh under
the sun all the days of his life, which God
giveth him: for it is his portion.
19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches
and wealth, and hath given him power to eat
thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice
in his labour; this is the gift of God.
20 For he shall not much remember the days of his
life; because God answereth him in the joy of his
heart.
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