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| 5:1 | Kepe thy foote when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to heare, then to giue the sacrifice of fooles: for they consider not that they doe euill. |
| 5:2 | Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to vtter any thing before God: for God is in heauen, and thou vpon earth: therefore let thy words be few. |
| 5:3 | For a dreame commeth through the multitude of businesse, and a fooles voyce is knowen by multitude of words. |
| 5:4 | When thou vowest a vow vnto God, deferre not to pay it: for he hath no pleasure in fooles; pay that which thou hast vowed. |
| 5:5 | Better is it that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vowe and not pay. |
| 5:6 | Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sinne, neither say thou before the Angel, that it was an errour: wherefore should God be angrie at thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands? |
| 5:7 | For in the multitude of dreames and many words, there are also diuers vanities: but feare thou God. |
| 5:8 | If thou seest the oppression of the poore, and violent peruerting of iudgement, and iustice in a prouince, maruell not at the matter: for he that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they. |
| 5:9 | Moreouer the profit of the earth is for all: the king himselfe is serued by the field. |
| 5:10 | Hee that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer; nor he that loueth abundance, with increase: this is also vanitie. |
| 5:11 | When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, sauing the beholding of them with their eyes? |
| 5:12 | The sleepe of a labouring man is sweete, whether he eate little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe. |
| 5:13 | There is a sore euill which I haue seene vnder the Sun, namely riches kept for the owners therof to their hurt. |
| 5:14 | But those riches perish by euill trauell; and he begetteth a sonne, and there is nothing in his hand. |
| 5:15 | As he came forth of his mothers wombe, naked shall he returne to goe 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 euill, that in all points as he came, so shall hee goe: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the winde? |
| 5:17 | All his dayes also hee eateth in darkenesse, and he hath much sorrowe, and wrath with his sicknesse. |
| 5:18 | Behold that which I haue seene: It is good and comely for one to eate and to drinke, and to enioy the good of all his labour that he taketh vnder the sunne, all the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for it is his portion. |
| 5:19 | Euery man also to whom God hath giuen riches and wealth, and hath giuen him power to eate thereof, and to take his portion, and to reioyce in his labour; this is the gift of God. |
| 5:20 | For he shall not much remember the dayes of his life: because God answereth him in the ioy of his heart. |
| 5:1 | When thou commest into the house of God, kepe thy foote and drawe nye, that God which is at hande may heare that thou geue not the offerynges of fooles: for they knowe naught but to do euyll |
| 5:2 | Be not hastye with thy mouth, and let not thine heart speake any thyng rashly before God: For God is in heauen, and thou vpon earth, therfore let thy wordes be fewe |
| 5:3 | For where much carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: and where many wordes are, there men may heare fooles |
| 5:4 | If thou make a vowe vnto God, be not slacke to perfourme it: As for foolish vowes he hath no pleasure in them: yf thou promise any thyng, pay it |
| 5:5 | For better is it that thou make no vowe, then that thou shouldest promise and not pay |
| 5:6 | Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy fleshe for to sinne, neither say thou before the angell that it is thy ignoraunce: for then God wyll be angry at thy voyce, and destroy all the worke of thyne handes |
| 5:7 | And why? wheras are many dreames and many wordes, there are also diuers vanities: but loke that thou feare God |
| 5:8 | If thou seest the poore to be oppressed, and wrongfully dealt withall, so that equitie and right of the lawe is wrested in the lande, maruayle not thou at such a thyng: for he that is higher then the hyghest regardeth, and there be hygher then they |
| 5:9 | The encrease of the earth vpholdeth all thyng: yea the kyng hym selfe is maynteyned by husbandry |
| 5:10 | He that loueth money, wyll neuer be satisfied with money: and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite therof: This is also a vayne thyng |
| 5:11 | Wheras much riches is, there are many also that spende them away: And what pleasure more hath he that possesseth them, sauyng that he may loke vpon them with his eyes |
| 5:12 | A labouryng man sleepeth swetely, whether it be litle or much that he eateth: but the aboundaunce of the riche wyll not suffer him to sleepe |
| 5:13 | Yet is there a sore plague which I haue seene vnder the sunne namely riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession |
| 5:14 | For oft tymes they perishe with his great miserie and trouble: and yf he haue a chylde, it getteth nothyng |
| 5:15 | Lyke as he came naked out of his mothers wombe, so goeth he thyther agayne, and caryeth nothyng away with him of all his labour |
| 5:16 | This is a miserable plague, that he shall go euen as he came away: What helpeth it him then that he hath laboured in the wynde |
| 5:17 | All the dayes of his lyfe also he dyd eate in the darke, with great carefulnesse, sicknesse, and sorowe |
| 5:18 | Therfore me thinke it a better and a fayrer thyng, a man to eate and drynke, and to be refresshed of all his labour that he taketh vnder the sunne, all the dayes of his lyfe which God geueth him: for this is his portion |
| 5:19 | For vnto whom soeuer God geueth riches, goodes, and power, he geueth it him to enioy it, to take it for his portion, and to be refresshed of his labour: this is the gyft of God |
| 5:20 | For he thinketh not much howe long he shall lyue, forasmuch as God fylleth his heart with gladnesse |
| 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. |
| 5:20 | n/a |
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