Ecclesiastes 5

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1 (4-17) Watch Keep thy foot, when you go into the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice; because they do not think they do evil.
2 (5-1) Do not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God; because God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.
3 (5-2) For a dream come in the multitude of cares, so a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

4 (5-3) When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it, because He has no pleasure in fools: that promised to fulfill.
5 (5-4) is better for you not to promise than to vow and not pay.
6 (5-5) Do not let your mouth to sin your flesh, and do not say before the angel [of God]: `it is - a mistake! ' Why do you [to do], God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
7 (5-6) For in the multitude of dreams and many words --mnogo bustle; but fear thou God.
8 (5-7) If you see what area oppression of the poor and of judgment and justice, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher observes the highest, and above them still higher;

9 (5-8) the superiority of the country as a whole is the king who cares about the country.
10 (5-9) He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves wealth, that there is no benefit from it. And it is - vanity!
eleven (5-10) Multiplied property, multiply and consume it; and a benefit to owning them, except to watch with your own eyes?
12 (5-11) is sweet sleep of a laboring whether whether he eat little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13 (5-12) There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
14 (5-13) and those riches perish by accident: he became the father of a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
15 (5-14) As he came naked from his mother's womb, and thus departs as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
16 (5-15) This is a sore evil: as he came, so departs. What profit hath he that hath labored for the wind?
17 (5-16) And it is all his days eating in the dark, in a big annoyance, sorrow and chagrin.

18 (5-17) Here is what I have found a good and pleasant: to eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor which those who work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; because it is his portion.
19 (5-18) And if any man God has given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.
20 (5-19) For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God has him in the joy of his heart.

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