Ecclesiastes 5

Reading Ecclesiastes chapter 5 in the Darby Bible, public-domain text from 1890.

Verses 1–10

1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house ofGod, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything beforeGod: forGod is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.

3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.

4 When thou vowest a vow untoGod, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore shouldGod be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

7 For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fearGod.

8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

9 Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king [himself] is dependent upon the field.

10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes in other translations

• KJV Ecclesiastes
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• DRC Ecclesiastes
• WEB Ecclesiastes
• Webster Ecclesiastes
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