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5 Never enter God’s house carelessly; draw near him to listen, and then your service is better than what fools offer--for all a fool knows is how to do wrong. 2 Never be rash with your lips, never let your heart hurry you into words before God. God is in heaven, and you are upon earth; so let your words be few.
3For, as many worries mean that a man will dream
so many words mean that a fool is talking. 4 When you vow a vow to God, pay it without delay (for the vows of fools displease him). 5 Pay your vow; better not vow at all than vow and fail to pay. 6 Never allow your lips to lay you open to punishment; never say to God, “I vowed that by mistake,” lest God be angry at your excuse and undo you. Stand inawe of God 7 [[for many dreams and words mean many a vain folly]].
8 When you see the poor being oppressed, or right and justice tampered with in the State, be not surprised; it is one official preying on another. But over both there is a supreme authority; 9 after all, a country prospers with a king who has control.
10 A lover of money will never be satisfied with his money, and a lover of wealth will never make anything of it (this too is vain!). 11 The more a man gains, the more there are to spend it--while the owner can only look on. 12 Sweet is the worker’s sleep, whether he has much to eat or little; but the satiety of the rich keeps them from sleeping.
13 A sore evil have I seen in the world, wealth hoarded to the owner’s loss: 14 in some unlucky venture it is lost, and the man has nothing to leave to his son. 15 Naked he came from his mother’s womb, and naked he must return; for all his toil, he has nothing to take with him. 16 A sore evil this, that as he came so he must go. What does he gain by all his futile toil, 17 spending his days in gloominess, privations, deep anxieties, distress, and fits of anger?
18 Here is what I find now to be right and good for man--to eat and drink and to be happy as he toils on at his task under the sun, during the few days that God gives him to five. 19 Such is his lot; yes, it is God’s own gift when a man is made rich and wealthy and able to enjoy it all, to partake of what may be allotted him and to enjoy himself as he toils. 20 Then he will never brood over the fewness of his days, for God is giving him his heart’s delight.