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Ecclesiastes 5:1 (show verse)

Be not hasty with thy mouth,

Ecclesiastes 5:2 (show verse)

and let not thine heart speak anything rashly before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5:3 (show verse)

For where much carefulness is, there are many dreams: and where many words are, there men may hear fools.

Ecclesiastes 5:4 (show verse)

If thou make a vow unto God, be not slack to perform it. As for foolish vows, he hath no pleasure in them.

Ecclesiastes 5:5 (show verse)

If thou promise anything, pay it; for better it is that thou make no vow than that thou shouldest promise, and not pay.

Ecclesiastes 5:6 (show verse)

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh for to sin, neither say thou before the angel that it is thy ignorance. For then God will be angry at thy voice, and destroy all the works of thine hands.

Ecclesiastes 5:7 (show verse)

And why? Whereas are many dreams and many words, there are also divers vanities: but look that thou fear God.

Ecclesiastes 5:8 (show verse)

If thou seest the poor to be oppressed and wrongfully dealt withal, so that equity and the right of the law is wrested in the land: marvel not thou at such judgment, for one great man keepeth touch with another, and the mighty help themselves together.

Ecclesiastes 5:9 (show verse)

The whole land also with the fields and all that is therein, is in subjection and bondage unto the king.

Ecclesiastes 5:10 (show verse)

He that loveth money, will never be satisfied with money: and whoso delighteth in riches, shall have no profit thereof. Is not this also a vain thing?

Ecclesiastes 5:11 (show verse)

Whereas many riches are, there are many also that spend them away. And what pleasure more hath he that possesseth them, saving that he may look upon them with his eyes?

Ecclesiastes 5:12 (show verse)

A labouring man sleepeth sweetly, whether it be little or much that he eateth; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:13 (show verse)

Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession.

Ecclesiastes 5:14 (show verse)

For oft times they perish with his great misery and trouble: and if he have a child it getteth nothing.

Ecclesiastes 5:15 (show verse)

Like as he came naked out of his mother's womb, so goeth he thither again, and carryeth nothing away with him of all his labour.
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Ecclesiastes 5:16 (show verse)

This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind?

Ecclesiastes 5:17 (show verse)

All the days of his life also must he eat in the dark, with great carefulness, sickness and sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 5:18 (show verse)

Therefore me think it a better and fairer thing, a man to eat and drink, and to be refreshed of all his labour that he taketh under the Sun all the days of his life which God giveth him: for this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 5:19 (show verse)

For unto whomsoever God giveth riches, goods and power, he giveth it him to enjoy it, to take it for his portion, and to be refreshed of his labour: this is now the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:20 (show verse)

For he thinketh not much how long he shall live, forsomuch as God filleth his heart with gladness.