Ecc 5 | EngLXX | STEP | Be not hasty with your mouth, and let not your heart be swift to utter anything before God;for God is in heaven above, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5

1 Be not hasty with your mouth, and let not your heart be swift to utter anything before God;for God is in heaven above, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few. 2 For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; and a fool's voice is with a multitudeof words. 3 Whenever you shall vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; forhe has no pleasure in fools: pay you therefore whatever you shall have vowed. 4 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay. 5 Suffer not your mouth to lead your flesh to sin; and say not in the presence of God, Itwas an error: lest God be angry at your voice, and destroy the works of your hands. 6 Forthere is evil in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear you God. 7 If you should see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justicein the land, wonder not at the matter: forthere is a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them. 8 Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the kingis dependent on the tilled field. 9 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has loved gain, in theabundance thereof? this is also vanity. 10 In the multitude of good they are increased that eat it: and what virtue has the owner,but the right of beholdingit with his eyes? 11 The sleep of a servant is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but to one who is satiatedwith wealth, there is none that suffers him to sleep. 12 There is an infirmity which I have seen under the sun,namely, wealth kept for its owner to his hurt. 13 And that wealth shall perish in an evil trouble: andthe man begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand. 14 As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, he shall return back as he came, and heshall receive nothing for his labor, that it should gowith him in his hand. 15 And this is also an evil infirmity: for as he came, so also shall he return: and whatis his gain, for which he vainly labors? 16 Yes, all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, and much sorrow, and infirmity, andwrath. 17 Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thingfor a man to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor in which he may labor underthe sun,all the number of the days of his life which God has given to him: for it is his portion. 18 Yes, andas for every man to whom God has given wealth and possessions, and has given him power to eatthereof, and to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God. 19 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; for God troubles him in the mirthof his heart.