5:1   Guard your steps as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know they do evil.

5:2   Do not show haste in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God For God dwells in heaven and you live on the earth; therefore let your words remain few.

5:3  For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.

5:4   When you make a vow to God, do not delay in paying it; for He takes no delight in fools. Pay what you vow!

5:5  It seems more desirable that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

5:6  Do not let your speech cause you to sin and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that you made a mistake. Why should God have anger on account of your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

5:7  For in many dreams and in many words one finds emptiness. Rather, fear God.

5:8  If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not feel shocked at the sight; for one official watches over another official, and higher officials watches over them.

5:9   After all, a king who cultivates the field becomes an advantage to the land.

5:10   He who loves money will not find satisfaction with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too seems vain.

5:11   When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what advantage do their owners have except to look on?

5:12  The sleep of the working man seems pleasant, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep.

5:13   A grievous evil I have seen under the sun: riches hoarded by their owner hurts him.

5:14  When those riches disappear through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then nothing supported him.

5:15   As he had come naked from his mother's womb, so will he return as he came He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.

5:16  This also seems a grievous evil--exactly as a man enters life will a man end life. So what advantage does he have who toils for the wind?

5:17  Throughout his life he also eats in darkness with great vexation, sickness and anger.

5:18  Here I have seen good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one's labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this constitutes his reward.

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5:20   For he will not often consider the years of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart.