ECCLESIASTES, or the Preacher Chapter 5

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1 Vanities in Diuine seruice, 8 in murmuring against oppression, 9 and in Riches. 18 Ioy in riches is the gift of God.

¹Kepe thy foote when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to heare, then to giue the sacrifice of fooles: for they consider not that they doe euill.¹

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²Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to vtter any thing before God: for God is in heauen, and thou vpon earth: therefore let thy words be few.²

³For a dreame commeth through the multitude of businesse, and a fooles voyce is knowen by multitude of words.

⁴When thou vowest a vow vnto God, deferre not to pay it: for he hath no pleasure in fooles; pay that which thou hast vowed.⁴

⁵Better is it that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vowe and not pay.

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⁶Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sinne, neither say thou before the Angel, that it was an errour: wherefore should God be angrie at thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?

⁷For in the multitude of dreames and many words, there are also diuers vanities: but feare thou God.

⁸¶ If thou seest the oppression of the poore, and violent peruerting of iudgement, and iustice in a prouince, maruell not at the matter: for he that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.⁸

⁹¶ Moreouer the profit of the earth is for all: the king himselfe is serued by the field.

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¹⁰Hee that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer; nor he that loueth abundance, with increase: this is also vanitie.

¹¹When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, sauing the beholding of them with their eyes?

¹²The sleepe of a labouring man is sweete, whether he eate little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe.

¹³There is a sore euill which I haue seene vnder the Sun, namely riches kept for the owners therof to their hurt.

¹⁴But those riches perish by euill trauell; and he begetteth a sonne, and there is nothing in his hand.

¹⁵As he came forth of his mothers wombe, naked shall he returne to goe as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.¹⁵

¹⁶And this also is a sore euill, that in all points as he came, so shall hee goe: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the winde?¹⁶

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¹⁷All his dayes also hee eateth in darkenesse, and he hath much sorrowe, and wrath with his sicknesse.

¹⁸¶ Behold that which I haue seene: It is good and comely for one to eate and to drinke, and to enioy the good of all his labour that he taketh vnder the sunne, all the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for it is his portion.¹⁸

¹⁹Euery man also to whom God hath giuen riches and wealth, and hath giuen him power to eate thereof, and to take his portion, and to reioyce in his labour; this is the gift of God.

²⁰For he shall not much remember the dayes of his life: because God answereth him in the ioy of his heart.²⁰

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Ecclesiastes Chapter 5

¹ 1.Sam.15 22. psal.50. 8. prou.15. 8. & 21.27.
² Or, word. , Mat.6.7. prou.10.19.
⁴ Deut.23. 21. , Psal.66. 13,14.
⁸ Heb. at the will or purpose.
¹⁵ Iob.1. 21. 1.tim.6.7. psal. 49.17.
¹⁶ Chap.1.2.
¹⁸ Chap.2. 24 and 3. 12. , Heb. there is a good which is comely, &c. , Heb. the number of the dayes.
²⁰ Or, though he giue not much, yet he remembred &c.

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