5:1  Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be
more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for
they consider not that they do evil.
 5:2  Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be
hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven,
and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
 5:3  For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and
a fool's voice [is known] by multitude of words.
 5:4  When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for
[he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
 5:5  Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that
thou shouldest vow and not pay.
 5:6  Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither
say thou before the angel, that it [was] an error: wherefore
should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine
hands?
 5:7  For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are]
also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.
 5:8  If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent
perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at
the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth;
and [there be] higher than they.
 5:9  Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king
[himself] is served by the field.
 5:10  He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with
silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is]
also vanity.
 5:11  When goods increase, they are increased that eat them:
and what good [is there] to the owners thereof, saving the
beholding [of them] with their eyes?
 5:12  The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat
little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer
him to sleep.
 5:13  There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun,
[namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
 5:14  But those riches perish by evil travail: and he
begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.
 5:15  As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he
return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour,
which he may carry away in his hand.
 5:16  And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as
he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath
laboured for the wind?
 5:17  All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath]
much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
 5:18  Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely
[for one] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his
labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life,
which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion.
 5:19  Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth,
and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his
portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this [is] the gift of
God.
 5:20  For he shall not much remember the days of his life;
because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.