Ecclesiastes 5 — The Holy Bible

Do not be hasty with your mouth,

And do not let not your heart be quick

To utter a word before God;

For God is in heaven, and you are on earth;

Therefore, let your words be few.

For a dream comes in a multitude of distractions,

And the voice of a senseless man is with a multitude of words.

When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it,

For His will is not in senseless men.

So pay whatever you vowed.

Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.

Ecclesiastes 5, verse 5. Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not say in the presence of God, “It was a mistake.” Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands? Ecclesiastes 5, verse 6. For in a multitude of dreams there are vanities and many words, but you should fear God.

The Vanity of Riches

Ecclesiastes 5, verse 7. If you see the oppression of the poor and the violation of judgment and righteousness in the land, do not marvel at the matter; for there is a high official to watch over a high official, and higher ones over them! Ecclesiastes 5, verse 8. Moreover, the abundance of the earth is for all: even a king depends on work in the field.

He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;

Nor he who loves the harvest, with its abundance.

This also is vanity.

In the abundance of good things

They who eat them also increase,

But what virtue does the owner have from them,

Except to see them with his eyes?

The sleep of a servant is sweet,

Whether he eats little or much;

But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.

There was a sickness I saw under the sun:

Wealth kept for its owner to his hurt.

That wealth shall perish in painful distraction,

And he begets a son;

But there is nothing in his hand.

As he came from his mother's womb,

Naked shall he return, to go as he came;

And he shall take nothing from his labor

That it may go with him in his hand.

This also is a painful sickness,

For as he came, so shall he go;

And what is his gain, for which he labored for the wind?

All his days are in darkness and sorrow

And in much anger, sickness, and gall.

Ecclesiastes 5, verse 17. Behold, I have seen good: It is a fine thing for a man to experience goodness in all his labor in which he toils all the days of his life that God has given him; for it is his portion. Ecclesiastes 5, verse 18. As for every man to whom God has given wealth, possessions, and authority—to eat from it, to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God. Ecclesiastes 5, verse 19. For he will not remember the many days of his life, because God distracted him in the merriment of his heart.