Ecclesiastes 5
Your Attitude Toward God
1 ▼▼ Ch 4:17 in Heb
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bGuard your steps as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the csacrifice of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil. 2 ▼▼ Ch 5:1 in Heb
Do not be ehasty ▼▼ Lit with your mouth
in word or ▼▼ Lit hurry your heart
impulsive 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 hwords be few. 3For the dream comes through much ▼▼ Lit task
effort and the voice of a jfool through many words. 4When you kmake a vow to God, do not be late in paying it; for He takes no delight in fools. lPay what you vow! 5It is mbetter that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. 6Do not let your ▼▼ Lit mouth
speech cause ▼▼ Lit your body
you to sin and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that it was a pmistake. 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 ▼▼ Lit vanity
emptiness. Rather, ▼▼ Or revere
,
sfear God. 8If you see toppression of the poor and udenial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be vshocked at the ▼▼ Lit delight
sight; for one ▼▼ Lit high one
official watches over another ▼▼ Lit high one
official, and there are higher ▼▼ Lit ones
officials over them. 9After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land. The Folly of Riches
10 aaHe who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is ▼▼ Or futility
vanity. 11 acWhen good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to ▼▼ Lit see with their eyes
look on? 12The sleep of the working man is aepleasant, whether he eats little or much; but the ▼▼ Lit satiety
full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep. 13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: agriches being ▼▼ Lit guarded
hoarded by their owner to his hurt. 14When those riches were lost through ▼▼ Lit an evil task
a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing ▼▼ Lit in his hand
to support him. 15 akAs he had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came. He will altake nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand. 16This also is a grievous evil— exactly as a man ▼▼ Lit comes
is born, thus will he ▼▼ Lit go
die. So aowhat is the advantage to him who aptoils for the wind? 17Throughout his life aq he also eats in darkness with argreat vexation, sickness and anger. 18Here is what I have seen to be asgood and ▼▼ Lit beautiful
fitting: to eat, to drink and ▼▼ Lit see good
enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few ▼▼ Or days
years of his life which God has given him; for this is his ▼▼ Or share
,
axreward. 19Furthermore, as for every man to whom ayGod has given riches and wealth, He has also azempowered him to eat from them and to receive his ▼▼ Or share
reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the bbgift of God. 20For he will not often ▼▼ Lit remember
consider the ▼▼ Or days
years of his life, because beGod keeps ▼▼ So with Gr
him occupied with the gladness of his heart.
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