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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.
Too much activity gives you restless dreams; too many words make you a fool.
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 promise to God, don’t delay in following through, for God takes no pleasure in fools. Keep all the promises you make to him.
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
It is better to say nothing than to make a promise and not keep it.
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?
Don’t let your mouth make you sin. And don’t defend yourself by telling the Temple messenger that the promise you made was a mistake. That would make God angry, and he might wipe out everything you have achieved.
For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.
Talk is cheap, like daydreams and other useless activities. Fear God instead.
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 Futility of Wealth
Don’t be surprised if you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and if justice is being miscarried throughout the land. For every official is under orders from higher up, and matters of justice get lost in red tape and bureaucracy.
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.
Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!
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?
The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what good is wealth — except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!
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.
People who work hard sleep well, whether they eat little or much. But the rich seldom get a good night’s sleep.
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
There is another serious problem I have seen under the sun. Hoarding riches harms the saver.
or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Money is put into risky investments that turn sour, and everything is lost. In the end, there is nothing left to pass on to one’s children.
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.
We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us.
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?
And this, too, is a very serious problem. People leave this world no better off than when they came. All their hard work is for nothing — like working for the wind.
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.
Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud — frustrated, discouraged, and angry.
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.
Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least, that is good. It is good for people to eat, drink, and enjoy their work under the sun during the short life God has given them, and to accept their lot in life.
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.
And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life — this is indeed a gift from God.