Ecclesiastes 5
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Your Attitude toward God
1 # 5:1 Ch 4:17 in Heb Guard your steps as you go to the house of God, and approach to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2#5:2 Ch 5:1 in HebDo not be quick with your mouth or #5:2 Lit hurry your heartimpulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven and you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few. 3For the dream comes through much #5:3 Lit taskeffort, and the voice of a fool through many words.
4When you make a vow to God, do not be late in paying it; for He takes no delight in fools. Pay what you vow! 5It is better that you not vow, than vow and not pay. 6Do not let your #5:6 Lit mouthspeech cause #5:6 Lit your bodyyou to sin, and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry on account of your voice, and destroy the work of your hands? 7For in many dreams and in many words there is futility. Rather, #5:7 Or reverefear God.
8If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the #5:8 Lit delightsight; for one #5:8 Lit high oneofficial watches over another #5:8 Lit high oneofficial, and there are higher #5:8 Lit onesofficials over them. 9After all, a king who cultivates the field is beneficial to the land.
The Foolishness of Riches
10One who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor one who loves abundance with its income. This too is futility. 11When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to #5:11 Lit see with their eyeslook at them? 12The sleep of the laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the #5:12 Lit satietyfull stomach of the rich person does not allow him to sleep.
13There is a sickening evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth being #5:13 Lit guardedhoarded by its owner to his detriment. 14When that wealth was lost through bad business and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing #5:14 Lit in his handto support him. 15As he came naked from his mother’s womb, so he will return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand. 16This also is a sickening evil: exactly as a person #5:16 Lit comesis born, so will he #5:16 Lit godie. What then is the advantage for him who labors for the wind? 17All his life he also eats in darkness with great irritation, sickness, and anger.
18Here is what I have seen to be good and #5:18 Lit beautifulfitting: to eat, to drink, and #5:18 Lit see goodenjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he labors under the sun during the few #5:18 Or daysyears of his life which God has given him; for this is his #5:18 Or sharereward. 19Furthermore, as for every person to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also given him the opportunity to #5:19 Lit eat from itenjoy them and to receive his #5:19 Or sharereward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God. 20For he will not often call to mind the #5:20 Or daysyears of his life, because God keeps #5:20 As in LXXhim busy with the joy of his heart.
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