Ecclesiastes Chapter 5
5:1 | Keep thy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
5:2 | 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 ![]() |
5:3 | For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool' voice [is known] by multitude of words. |
5:4 | When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no ![]() |
5:5 | Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. |
5:6 | 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? |
5:7 | For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God. |
5:8 | 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. |
5:9 | Moreover the profit of the ![]() ![]() |
5:10 | He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth 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 ![]() ![]() |
5:14 | But those riches perish by ![]() |
5:15 | As he came forth of his mother' 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 ![]() |
5:17 | All his ![]() |
5:18 | Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for one] to eat and to ![]() ![]() ![]() |
5:19 | Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him ![]() |
5:20 | For he shall not much remember the ![]() |