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Ecclesiastes Chapter 5

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Ecclesiastes 5

1Be not rash with thy mouth, nor let thine heart be hastie to vtter a thing before God: for God is in the heauens, and thou art on the earth: therefore let thy wordes be fewe.
James 1:19, James 1:19, Hebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29, Hebrews 12:28
2For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.
Matthew 6:7, Matthew 6:7, Proverbs 10:19, Proverbs 10:19, Isaiah 55:9
3When thou hast vowed a vowe to God, deferre not to pay it: for he deliteth not in fooles: pay therefore that thou hast vowed.
Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 10:19, Proverbs 10:19, Ecclesiastes 10:12
4It is better that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay it.
Numbers 30:2, Numbers 30:2, Deuteronomy 23:21, Deuteronomy 23:23, Deuteronomy 23:21
5Suffer not thy mouth to make thy flesh to sinne: neither say before the Angel, that this is ignorance: wherefore shall God bee angry by thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?
Acts 5:4, Acts 5:4, Proverbs 20:25, Proverbs 20:25, Deuteronomy 23:22
6For in the multitude of dreames, and vanities are also many wordes: but feare thou God.
James 1:26, James 1:26, 2 John 1:8, 2 John 1:8, James 3:2
7If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.
Ecclesiastes 12:13, Matthew 12:36, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Matthew 12:36, Ecclesiastes 8:12
8And the abundance of the earth is ouer all: the King also consisteth by the fielde that is tilled.
Psalms 12:5, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Psalms 12:5, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Ecclesiastes 3:16
9He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie.
1 Kings 4:7, 1 Kings 4:23, Proverbs 28:19, 1 Kings 4:7, 1 Kings 4:23
10When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?
1 Timothy 6:10, 1 Timothy 6:10, Matthew 6:24, Matthew 6:24, Luke 12:15
11The sleepe of him that traueileth, is sweete, whether he eate litle or much: but the sacietie of the riche will not suffer him to sleepe.
1 John 2:16, 1 John 2:16, Habakkuk 2:13, Habakkuk 2:13, Psalms 119:36
12There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill.
Proverbs 3:24, Proverbs 3:24, Psalms 4:8, Psalms 127:2, Jeremiah 31:26
13And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.
Ecclesiastes 6:1, Ecclesiastes 6:2, Ecclesiastes 6:1, Ecclesiastes 6:2, Luke 18:22
14As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shall beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand.
Proverbs 23:5, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Haggai 2:16, Haggai 2:17, Haggai 1:9
15And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?
Psalms 49:17, Job 1:21, Psalms 49:17, Job 1:21, 1 Timothy 6:7
16Also all his dayes hee eateth in darkenes with much griefe, and in his sorowe and anger.
Ecclesiastes 1:3, Proverbs 11:29, Ecclesiastes 1:3, Proverbs 11:29, Mark 8:36
17Beholde then, what I haue seene good, that it is comely to eate, and to drinke, and to take pleasure in all his labour, wherein he traueileth vnder the sunne, the whole nomber of the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for this is his portion.
Psalms 127:2, Psalms 127:2, 1 Corinthians 11:30, 1 Corinthians 11:32, Psalms 90:7
18Also to euery man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures, and giueth him power to eate thereof, and to take his part, and to enioy his labour: this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 3:12, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 3:22
19Surely hee will not much remember the dayes of his life, because God answereth to the ioy of his heart.
Deuteronomy 8:18, Deuteronomy 8:18, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 6:2
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Isaiah 65:21, Isaiah 65:24, Isaiah 65:13, Isaiah 65:14, Isaiah 65:21

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