Ecclesiastes:5

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* Keep thy foot when thou go to the house of God , for to draw near to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools . For they know not that they do evil . * Be not rash with thy mouth , and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God . For God is in heaven , and thou upon earth . Therefore let thy words be few . * For a dream comes with a multitude of business , and a fool 's voice with a multitude of words . * When thou vow a vow to God , defer not to pay it , for he has no pleasure in fools . Pay that which thou vow . * Better is it that thou should not vow , than that thou should vow and not pay . * Do not allow thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin , nor say thou before the [heavenly ] agent , that is was an error . Why should God be angry at thy voice , and destroy the work of thy hands ? * For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities , and in many words . But fear thou God . * If thou see the oppression of a poor man , and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province , marvel not at the matter . For [a man ] higher than the high is observing , and there are higher [men ] than they . * Moreover the abundance of the land is for all . The king [himself ] is served by the field . * He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver , nor he who loves abundance , with increase . This also is vanity . * When goods increase , they are increased who eat them . And what advantage is there to the owner of it , except the beholding [of them ] with his eyes ? * The sleep of a laboring man is sweet , whether he eats little or much , but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep . * There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun : Riches [were ] kept by the owner of it to his hurt . * And those riches perish in a bad venture . And if he has begotten a son , there is nothing in his hand . * As he came forth from his mother 's womb , naked shall he go again as he came , and shall take nothing for his labor , which he may carry away in his hand . * And this also is a grievous evil , that in all points as he came , so shall he go . And what profit has he that he labored for the wind ? * All his days also he eats in gloom , and he is greatly troubled , and has depression and anger . * Behold , that which I have seen to be good and to be fitting is [for a man ] to eat and to drink , and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him , for this is his p * Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth , and has given him power to eat of it , and to take his portion , and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God . * 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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