1 Keep your foot when you go 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. Compare verse2 commentaries
2 Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and you on earth: therefore let your words be few. Compare verse6 commentaries
3 For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. Compare verse1 commentary
4 When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed. Compare verse3 commentaries
6 Suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say you before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands? Compare verse1 commentary
7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear you God. Compare verse1 commentary
8 If you see 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 regards; and there be higher than they. Compare verse1 commentary
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. Compare verse2 commentaries
10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity. Compare verse3 commentaries
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? Compare verse1 commentary
12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. Compare verse7 commentaries
13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. Compare verse7 commentaries
14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand. Compare verse1 commentary
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 labor, which he may carry away in his hand. Compare verse1 commentary
16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he that has labored for the wind? Compare verse1 commentary
17 All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness. Compare verse1 commentary
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 labor that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him: for it is his portion. Compare verse1 commentary
19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God. Compare verse2 commentaries
20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answers him in the joy of his heart. Compare verse