Ecclesiastes:5

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* Walk prudently when you go to the house of God ; and draw near to hear rather than to give the sacrifice of fools , for they do not know that they do evil . * Do not be rash with your mouth , And let not your heart utter anything hastily before God . For God is in heaven , and you on earth ; Therefore let your words be few . * For a dream comes through much activity , And a fool 's voice is known by his many words . * When you make a vow to God , do not delay to pay it ; For He has no pleasure in fools . Pay what you have vowed -- * Better not to vow than to vow and not pay . * Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin , nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error . Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands ? * For in the multitude of dreams and many words there is also vanity . But fear God . * If you see the oppression of the poor , and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province , do not marvel at the matter ; for high official watches over high official , and higher officials are over them . * Moreover the profit of the land is for all ; even the king is served from the field . * He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver ; Nor he who loves abundance , with increase . This also is vanity . * When goods increase , They increase who eat them ; So what profit have the owners Except to see them with their eyes ? * The sleep of a laboring man is sweet , Whether he eats little or much ; But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep . * There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun : Riches kept for their owner to his hurt . * But those riches perish through misfortune ; When he begets a son , there is nothing in his hand . * As he came from his mother 's womb , naked shall he return , To go as he came ; And he shall take nothing from his labor Which he may carry away in his hand . * And this also is a severe evil -- Just exactly as he came , so shall he go . And what profit has he who has labored for the wind ? * All his days he also eats in darkness , And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger . * Here is what I have seen : It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink , and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him ; for it is his heritage . * As for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth , and given him power to eat of it , to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God . * For he will not dwell unduly on the days of his life , because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart .

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