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Chapter five.

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Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house
of God, and be more ready to hear than to

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give the sacrifice of fools.

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For they consider not that they do evil.

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Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not
thine heart be hasty to utter anything

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before God.

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For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth.

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Therefore let thy words be few,
for a dream cometh through the multitude

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of business, and a fool's voice is known
by multitude of words.

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When thou vowest a vow unto God,
defer not to pay it, for he hath no

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pleasure in fools.

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Pay that which thou hast vowed.

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

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Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to
sin, neither say thou before the angel

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that it was an error.

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Wherefore should God be angry at thy
voice, and destroy the work of thine

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hands?

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For in the multitude of dreams and many
words there are also divers vanities,

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but fear thou God.

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If thou seest the oppression of the poor
and violent perverting of judgment and

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justice in a province, marvel not at the
matter.

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For he that is higher than the highest
regardeth, and there be higher than they.

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Moreover the profit of the earth is for
all, the king himself is served by the

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field.

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He that loveth silver shall not be
satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth

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abundance with increase, this is also
vanity.

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When goods increase they are increased
that eat them, and what good is there to

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the owners thereof, saving the beholding
of them with their eyes?

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The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
whether he eat little or much,

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but the abundance of the rich will not
suffer him to sleep.

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There is a sore evil which I have seen
under the sun, namely riches kept for the

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owners thereof to their hurt.

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But those riches perish by evil travail,
and he begetteth a son, and there is

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nothing in his hand.

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As he came forth of his mother's womb,
naked shall he return to go as he came,

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and shall take nothing of his labor,
which he may carry away in his hand.

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And this also is a sore evil, that in all
points as he came, so shall he go.

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And what profit hath he that hath labored
for the wind?

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All his days also he eateth in darkness,
and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his

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sickness.

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Behold that which I have seen,
it is good and comely for one to eat and

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to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his
labor, that he taketh under the sun all

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the days of his life, which God giveth
him.

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For it is his portion, every man also to
whom God hath given riches and wealth,

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and hath given him power to eat thereof,
and to take his portion.

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And to rejoice in his labor, this is the
gift of God.

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For he shall not much remember the days of
his life, because God answereth him in the

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joy of his heart.