Ecclesiastes 5 Keep your foot when you go 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.

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1 H8104 Keep H7272 your foot H834 when H3212 you go H1004 to the house H430 of God, H7138 and be more H7138 ready H8085 to hear, H5414 than to give H2077 the sacrifice H3684 of fools: H3045 for they consider H6213 not that they do H7451 evil.

2 H926 Be not rash H6310 with your mouth, H3820 and let not your heart H4116 be hasty H3318 to utter H1697 any thing H6440 before H430 God: H430 for God H8064 is in heaven, H776 and you on earth: H5921 therefore H3651 H1697 let your words H4592 be few.

3 H2472 For a dream H935 comes H7230 through the multitude H6045 of business; H3684 and a fool’s H6963 voice H7230 is known by multitude H1697 of words.

4 H834 When H5087 you vow H5088 a vow H430 to God, H309 defer H7999 not to pay H369 it; for he has no H2656 pleasure H3684 in fools: H7999 pay H834 that which H5087 you have vowed.

5 H2896 Better H5087 is it that you should not vow, H5087 than that you should vow H7999 and not pay.

6 H5414 Suffer H6310 not your mouth H1320 to cause your flesh H2398 to sin; H408 neither H559 say H6440 you before H4397 the angel, H7684 that it was an error: H4100 why H430 should God H7107 be angry H5921 at H6963 your voice, H2254 and destroy H4639 the work H3027 of your hands?

7 H7230 For in the multitude H2472 of dreams H7230 and many H1697 words H1892 there are also divers vanities: H3372 but fear H430 you God.

8 H518 If H7200 you see H6233 the oppression H7326 of the poor, H1499 and violent H4941 perverting of judgment H6664 and justice H4082 in a province, H8539 marvel H5921 not at H2656 the matter: H1364 for he that is higher H5921 than H1364 the highest H8104 regards; H1364 and there be higher H5921 than they.

9 H3504 Moreover the profit H776 of the earth H3605 is for all: H4428 the king H5647 himself is served H7704 by the field.

10 H157 He that loves H3701 silver H7646 shall not be satisfied H3701 with silver; H157 nor he that loves H1995 abundance H8393 with increase: H2088 this H1571 is also H1892 vanity.

11 H2896 When goods H7235 increase, H7231 they are increased H398 that eat H4100 them: and what H3788 good H1167 is there to the owners H518 thereof, saving H7200 the beholding H5869 of them with their eyes?

12 H8142 The sleep H5647 of a laboring H4966 man is sweet, H518 whether H398 he eat H4592 little H7235 or much: H7647 but the abundance H6223 of the rich H3240 will not suffer H3462 him to sleep.

13 H2470 There is a sore H7451 evil H7200 which I have seen H8478 under H8121 the sun, H6239 namely, riches H8104 kept H1167 for the owners H7451 thereof to their hurt.

14 H1931 But those H6239 riches H6 perish H7451 by evil H6045 travail: H3205 and he begets H1121 a son, H3808 and there is nothing H3972 H3027 in his hand.

15 H3318 As he came H3318 forth H517 of his mother’s H990 womb, H6174 naked H7725 shall he return H3212 to go H935 as he came, H5375 and shall take H3808 nothing H3972 H5999 of his labor, H3212 which he may carry H3027 away in his hand.

16 H2090 And this H1571 also H2470 is a sore H7451 evil, H3605 that in all H5980 points H935 as he came, H3651 so H3212 shall he go: H4100 and what H3504 profit H5998 has he that has labored H7307 for the wind?

17 H3605 All H3117 his days H1571 also H398 he eats H2822 in darkness, H7235 and he has much H3708 sorrow H7110 and wrath H2483 with his sickness.

18 H2009 Behold H834 that which H7200 I have seen: H2896 it is good H3303 and comely H398 for one to eat H8354 and to drink, H7200 and to enjoy H2896 the good H3605 of all H5999 his labor H5998 that he takes H8478 under H8121 the sun H4557 all H3117 the days H2416 of his life, H834 which H430 God H5414 gives H2506 him: for it is his portion.

19 H3605 Every H120 man H1571 also H834 to whom H430 God H5414 has given H6239 riches H5233 and wealth, H7980 and has given him power H398 to eat H5375 thereof, and to take H2506 his portion, H8055 and to rejoice H5999 in his labor; H2090 this H4991 is the gift H430 of God.

20 H7235 For he shall not much H2142 remember H3117 the days H2416 of his life; H3588 because H430 God H6030 answers H8057 him in the joy H3820 of his heart.