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1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more
ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they
consider not that they do evil.
2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to
utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon
earth: therefore let thy words be few.
3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's
voice is known by multitude of words.
4 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.
5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest
vow and not pay.
6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou
before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be
angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also
divers vanities: but fear thou God.
8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting
of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for
he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher
than they.
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is
served by the field.
10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he
that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what
good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them
with their eyes?
12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or
much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely,
riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son,
and there is nothing in his hand.
15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to
go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may
carry away in his hand.
16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so
shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the
wind?
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow
and wrath with his sickness.
18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to
eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he
taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him:
for it is his portion.
19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath
given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to
rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God
answereth him in the joy of his heart.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized
Version
2.
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
- http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/ecclesiastes/gill/ecclesiastes5.htm
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Synopsis of Ecclesiastes 5 |
This chapter contains some rules and directions concerning
the worship of God; how persons should behave when they go
into the house of God; concerning hearing the word, to which
there should be a readiness, and which should be preferred
to the sacrifices of fools, vs.1;
Concerning prayer to God; which should not be uttered rashly
and hastily, and should be expressed in few words; which is
urged from the consideration of the majesty of God, and
vileness of men; and the folly of much speaking is exposed
by the simile of a dream, vs.2;
Concerning vows, which should not be rashly made; when made,
should be kept; nor should excuses be afterwards framed for
not performing them, since this might bring the anger of God
upon men, to the destruction of the works of their hands,
vs.4;
and, as an antidote against those vanities, which appear in
the prayers and vows of some, and dreams of others, the fear
of God is proposed, vs. 7;
and, against any surprise at the oppression of the poor, the
majesty, power, and providence of God, and his special
regard to his people, are observed, vs.8.
And then the wise man enters into a discourse concerning
riches; and observes, that the fruits of the earth, and the
culture of it, are necessary to all men, and even to the
king, vs. 9;
but dissuades from covetousness, or an over love of riches;
because they are unsatisfying, are attended with much
trouble, often injurious to the owners of them; at length
perish, and their possessors; who, at death, are stripped
quite naked of all, after they have spent their days in
darkness and distress, vs.10;
and concludes, therefore, that it is best for a man to
enjoy, in a free manner, the good things of this life he is
possessed of, and consider them as the gifts of God, and be
thankful for them; by which means he will pass through the
world more comfortably, and escape the troubles that attend
others, vs.18.2
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