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Ecclesiastes - Chapter: 5


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


5:1	Be not rash with thy mouth, nor let thine heart be hastie to vtter a thing before God: for God is in the heauens, and thou art on the earth: therefore let thy wordes be fewe.
5:2	For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.
5:3	When thou hast vowed a vowe to God, deferre not to pay it: for he deliteth not in fooles: pay therefore that thou hast vowed.
5:4	It is better that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay it.
5:5	Suffer not thy mouth to make thy flesh to sinne: neither say before the Angel, that this is ignorance: wherefore shall God bee angry by thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?
5:6	For in the multitude of dreames, and vanities are also many wordes: but feare thou God.
5:7	If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.
5:8	And the abundance of the earth is ouer all: the King also consisteth by the fielde that is tilled.
5:9	He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie.
5:10	When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?
5:11	The sleepe of him that traueileth, is sweete, whether he eate litle or much: but the sacietie of the riche will not suffer him to sleepe.
5:12	There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill.
5:13	And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.
5:14	As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shall beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand.
5:15	And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?
5:16	Also all his dayes hee eateth in darkenes with much griefe, and in his sorowe and anger.
5:17	Beholde then, what I haue seene good, that it is comely to eate, and to drinke, and to take pleasure in all his labour, wherein he traueileth vnder the sunne, the whole nomber of the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for this is his portion.
5:18	Also to euery man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures, and giueth him power to eate thereof, and to take his part, and to enioy his labour: this is the gift of God.
5:19	Surely hee will not much remember the dayes of his life, because God answereth to the ioy of his heart.
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5:1	When thou commest into the house of God, kepe thy fote & draw nye that God which is at hande may heare: that thou gyue not the offeringes of fooles, for they knowe nowght, but to do euell.
5:2	Be not hastye with thy mouth, and let not thine hert speake eny thing rashly before God. For God is in heauen, and thou vpon earth, therfore let thy wordes be few.
5:3	For where moch carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: and where many wordes are, there men maye heare fooles.
5:4	If thou make a vowe vnto God, be not slacke to perfourme it. As for folysh vowes, he hath no pleasure in them:
5:5	If thou promyse eny thinge, paye it: for better it is that thou make no vowe, then that thou shuldest promyse, and not paye.
5:6	Suffre not thy mouth to cause thy flesh for to synne, nether saye thou before the angell, that it is thy ignoraunce. For then God wilbe angrie at thy voyce, & destroye all the worckes of thyne handes.
5:7	And why? where as are many dreames and many wordes, there are also diuerse vanytes: but loke that thou feare God.
5:8	If thou seyst the poore to be oppressed and wrongeously dealt withall, so that equite & the ryght of the lawe is wrasted in the lande: maruell not thou at soch a thyng, for one greate man kepeth touch with another, & the myghtie men are in auctorite ouer the pore.
5:9	The encrease of the erth vpholdeth all thinge, yea the kynge himselfe is mayntened by husbandrye.
5:10	He that loueth money, wyll neuer be satisfyed wt money: & who so deliteth in riches, shal haue no profyt therof. This is also a vayne thinge.
5:11	Where as moche ryches is, there are many also that spende them awaye. And what pleasure more hath he that possesseth them, sauynge that he maye loke vpon them with his eyes?
5:12	A labouringe man slepeth swetely, whether it be lytle or moch that he eateth: but the aboundaunce of the ryche will not suffre him to slepe.
5:13	Yet is there a sore plage, which I haue sene vnder the sunne (namely) ryches kepte to the hurte of him that hath them in possession.
5:14	For oft tymes they perysh with his greate misery & trouble: & yf he haue a chylde, it getteth nothynge.
5:15	Lyke as he came naked out of hys mothers wombe, so goeth he thither agayne, & carieth nothing awaye with hym of all his laboure.
5:16	This is a miserable plage, that he shall go awaye euen as he came. What helpeth it hym then, that he hath laboured in the wynde?
5:17	All the dayes of his lyfe also he dyd eate in the darcke, with greate carefulnesse, sycknesse and sorow.
5:18	Therfore me thincke it a better & as fayrer thyng, a man to eate and dryncke, and to be refreshed of all hys laboure, that he taketh vnder the Sunne all the dayes of his lyfe which God geueth hym, for this is hys porcyon.
5:19	For vnto whomsoeuer God geueth riches goodes and power, he geueth it hym to enioye it, to take it for hys porcyon, and to be refreshed of hys laboure: thys is the gyfte of God.
5:20	For he thincketh not moch howe longe he shall lyue, for so moch as God fylleth his herte with gladnesse.

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