21_ECC_05_01 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.
21_ECC_05_02 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.
21_ECC_05_03 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice [is known] by multitude of words.
21_ECC_05_04 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.
21_ECC_05_05 Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
21_ECC_05_06 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?
21_ECC_05_07 For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.
21_ECC_05_08 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.
21_ECC_05_09 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.
21_ECC_05_10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity.
21_ECC_05_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?
21_ECC_05_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.
21_ECC_05_13 There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
21_ECC_05_14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.
21_ECC_05_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.
21_ECC_05_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?
21_ECC_05_17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
21_ECC_05_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.
21_ECC_05_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.
21_ECC_05_20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.