Book 21 : ECCLESIASTES - Chapter 005
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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
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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a
fool's voice is known by multitude of words
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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
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Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou
shouldest vow and not pay
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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
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For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also
divers vanities: but fear thou God
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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
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Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself
is served by the field
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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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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
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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
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There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely,
riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt
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But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a
son, and there is nothing in his hand
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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
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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
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All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much
sorrow and wrath with his sickness
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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
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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
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For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because
God answereth him in the joy of his heart
Book 21 : ECCLESIASTES - Chapter 005
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