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Chapter 5
Eccl UKJV 5:1  Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Eccl UKJV 5:2  Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.
Eccl UKJV 5:3  For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
Eccl UKJV 5:4  When you vow a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed.
Eccl UKJV 5:5  Better is it that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
Eccl UKJV 5:6  Suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say you before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
Eccl UKJV 5:7  For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear you God.
Eccl UKJV 5:8  If you see 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 regards; and there be higher than they.
Eccl UKJV 5:9  Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
Eccl UKJV 5:10  He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Eccl UKJV 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?
Eccl UKJV 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.
Eccl UKJV 5:13  There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Eccl UKJV 5:14  But those riches perish by evil travail: and he bring forths a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
Eccl UKJV 5:15  As he came out 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.
Eccl UKJV 5:16  And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?
Eccl UKJV 5:17  All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Eccl UKJV 5:18  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 takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him: for it is his portion.
Eccl UKJV 5:19  Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
Eccl UKJV 5:20  For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answers him in the joy of his heart.