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chapter 5
1
Speak
not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before
God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
2 Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be
found folly.
3 If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay
it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou
hast vowed, pay it.
4 And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow
not to perform the things promised.
5 Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say
not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words,
and destroy all the works of thy hands.
6 Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities,
and words without number: but do thou fear God.
7 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and
violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this
matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still
higher than these:
8 Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the
land subject to him.
9 A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and
he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.
10 Where there are great riches, there are also many to
eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with
his eyes?
11 Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat
lttle or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
12 There is also another grievous evil, which I have
seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.
13 For they are lost with very great affliction: he
hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.
14 As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so
shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.
15 A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return.
What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?
16 All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and
in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.
17 This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man
should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath
laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and
this is his portion.
18 And every man to whom God hath given riches, and
substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion,
and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.
19 For he shall not much remember the days of his life,
because God entertaineth his heart with delight,
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