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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.
Your Attitude Toward God
Guard your steps as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil.
Guard your steps as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know they are doing 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.
Do not be hasty in word or 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 words be few.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through 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 make a vow to God, do not be late in paying it; for He takes no delight 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?
Do not let your speech cause you to sin and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry on account of your voice and destroy the work of your hands?
For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.
For in many dreams and in many words there is emptiness. Rather, 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.
If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight; for one official watches over another official, and there are higher officials over them.
Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king [himself] is dependent upon the field.
After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land.
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
The Folly of Riches
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too 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 good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?
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.
The sleep of the working man is pleasant, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to 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 which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded 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.
When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him.
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 had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry 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 — exactly as a man is born, thus will he die. So what is the advantage to him who toils for the wind?
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.
Throughout his life he also eats in darkness with great vexation, 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.
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.
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.
Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.