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‏ Ecclesiastes 5

CHAPTER 5 Life's Experiences

1 Guard your foot whenever you should go into the house of God and are near to hear! [³be above ⁴the gift ⁵of the ⁶fools ²sacrifice ¹Let your], for they are not knowing to do bad. 2 Do not hasten with your mouth, and [²your heart ¹let not] hasten to bring forth a word before the presence of God! For God is in the heaven upward, and you are upon the earth; Upon this let [²be ¹your words] few! 3 For [²comes through ¹a dream] in a multitude of testing; and the voice of a fool in a multitude of words. 4 As when you vow a vow to God, you should not pass time to render it, for [²is not ¹his will] in foolish vows. You then, as much as you should have vowed, render! 5 Better [²to not ³make a vow ¹for you], than for you to make a vow and not repay. 6 You should not give your mouth to lead [²into sin ¹your flesh]; and you should not say before the presence of God that, It is in ignorance; lest [²should be provoked to anger ¹God] at your voice, and should utterly destroy the things made by your hands. 7 For in a multitude of dreams, and follies, and [²words ¹many], that with God you should fear. 8 If [²extortion ³of the needy ⁴and ⁵seizure ⁶by lawsuit ⁷and ⁸judicial right ¹you should see] in a place, you should not wonder over the thing; for a high one [²above ³a high one ¹shall guard], and high ones over them. 9 And the abundance of the earth [²for ³all ¹is]; even a king needs the [²of a field ¹working]. 10 The one loving silver shall not be filled of silver; nor one who loved [²in ³their abundance ¹the offspring]. And indeed this is folly. 11 In a multitude of goodness [⁴are multiplied ¹the ones ²eating ³of it]; and what courageous thing is it to the one having it, but the sum of the seeing it with his eyes? 12 [²is sweet ¹Sleep] for the servant, if [²little ³or ⁴if ⁵much ¹he shall eat]. And to the one being filled to be rich there is none allowing him to sleep. 13 There is a sickness which I beheld under the sun -- riches being kept by him, for his hurt. 14 And [²shall be destroyed ¹those riches] in [²distraction ¹an evil]; and he engenders a son, and is there not [²in ³his hand ¹anything]. 15 As he came forth from the womb of his mother naked, he shall return to go as he comes, and nothing shall he take in his effort, that it should go with him in his hand. 16 And indeed this is an evil sickness; for as he came, so also he shall go forth. And what is his advantage in which he makes an effort into the wind? 17 And indeed all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, and [²rage ¹much], and sickness, and bitter anger. 18 Behold, I saw good, which is good to eat and to drink; and to see goodness in all his effort in what ever he should make an effort in under the sun, in the number of days of his life which [²gave ³to him ¹God]. For it is his portion. 19 And indeed, every man to whom [²gave ³to him ¹God] riches and possessions, and gave to him authority to eat from it, and to take his portion, and to be glad in his effort; this [²a gift ³of God ¹is]. 20 For he will not much remember the days of his life, for God distracts him in the gladness of his heart.