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Fulfill Your Vow to God
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
Do not be quick with your mouth,
do not be hasty in your heart
to utter anything before God.
God is in heaven
and you are on earth,
so let your words be few.
do not be hasty in your heart
to utter anything before God.
God is in heaven
and you are on earth,
so let your words be few.
A dream comes when there are many cares,
and many words mark the speech of a fool.
and many words mark the speech of a fool.
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many words.
When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.
When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it.
It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, “My vow was a mistake.” Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands?
Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God.
Riches Are Meaningless
If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.
If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.
The Vanity of Wealth and Honor
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
As goods increase,
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?
When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
The sleep of a laborer is sweet,
whether they eat little or much,
but as for the rich, their abundance
permits them no sleep.
whether they eat little or much,
but as for the rich, their abundance
permits them no sleep.
Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.
I have seen a grievous evil under the sun:
wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,
wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,
or wealth lost through some misfortune,
so that when they have children
there is nothing left for them to inherit.
so that when they have children
there is nothing left for them to inherit.
and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.
Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,
and as everyone comes, so they depart.
They take nothing from their toil
that they can carry in their hands.
and as everyone comes, so they depart.
They take nothing from their toil
that they can carry in their hands.
As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.
This too is a grievous evil:
As everyone comes, so they depart,
and what do they gain,
since they toil for the wind?
As everyone comes, so they depart,
and what do they gain,
since they toil for the wind?
This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?
All their days they eat in darkness,
with great frustration, affliction and anger.
with great frustration, affliction and anger.
Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.
This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them — for this is their lot.
Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil — this is a gift of God.
Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil — this is the gift of God.