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Approaching God with Awe
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many words.
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.
When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.
Wealth is Meaningless
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.
The Vanity of Wealth and Honor
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king [himself] is dependent upon the field.
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.
Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,
or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.
As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go away again as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.
And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?
This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.
Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.
Behold what I have seen good and comely: [it is] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith [man] laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.
Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God.
Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil — this is the gift of God.