Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 5

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Never be rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be quick to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few.

Likewise all to whom God gives wealth and possessions and whom he enables to enjoy them, and to accept their lot and find enjoyment in their toil—this is the gift of God.

The lover of money will not be satisfied with money; nor the lover of wealth, with gain. This also is vanity.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than the sacrifice offered by fools; for they do not know how to keep from doing evil.

When you make a vow to God, do not delay fulfilling it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Fulfill what you vow.

It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not fulfill it.

Sweet is the sleep of laborers, whether they eat little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let them sleep.

As they came from their mother's womb, so they shall go again, naked as they came; they shall take nothing for their toil, which they may carry away with their hands.