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Ecclesiastes Chapter 5

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ECCLESIASTES

Ecclesiastes 5

1Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
James 1:19, James 1:19, Hebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29, Hebrews 12:28
2Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
Matthew 6:7, Matthew 6:7, Proverbs 10:19, Proverbs 10:19, Isaiah 55:9
3If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.
Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 10:19, Proverbs 10:19, Ecclesiastes 10:12
4And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform the things promised.
Numbers 30:2, Numbers 30:2, Deuteronomy 23:21, Deuteronomy 23:23, Deuteronomy 23:21
5Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and destroy all the works of thy hands.
Acts 5:4, Acts 5:4, Proverbs 20:25, Proverbs 20:25, Deuteronomy 23:22
6Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.
James 1:26, James 1:26, 2 John 1:8, 2 John 1:8, James 3:2
7If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:
Ecclesiastes 12:13, Matthew 12:36, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Matthew 12:36, Ecclesiastes 8:12
8Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.
Psalms 12:5, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Psalms 12:5, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Ecclesiastes 3:16
9A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.
1 Kings 4:7, 1 Kings 4:23, Proverbs 28:19, 1 Kings 4:7, 1 Kings 4:23
10Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?
1 Timothy 6:10, 1 Timothy 6:10, Matthew 6:24, Matthew 6:24, Luke 12:15
11Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
1 John 2:16, 1 John 2:16, Habakkuk 2:13, Habakkuk 2:13, Psalms 119:36
12There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.
Proverbs 3:24, Proverbs 3:24, Psalms 4:8, Psalms 127:2, Jeremiah 31:26
13For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.
Ecclesiastes 6:1, Ecclesiastes 6:2, Ecclesiastes 6:1, Ecclesiastes 6:2, Luke 18:22
14As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.
Proverbs 23:5, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Haggai 2:16, Haggai 2:17, Haggai 1:9
15A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?
Psalms 49:17, Job 1:21, Psalms 49:17, Job 1:21, 1 Timothy 6:7
16All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 1:3, Proverbs 11:29, Ecclesiastes 1:3, Proverbs 11:29, Mark 8:36
17This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.
Psalms 127:2, Psalms 127:2, 1 Corinthians 11:30, 1 Corinthians 11:32, Psalms 90:7
18And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 3:12, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 3:22
19For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight.
Deuteronomy 8:18, Deuteronomy 8:18, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 6:2

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