1Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

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James 1:19, James 1:19, Hebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29, Hebrews 12:28

2Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

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Matthew 6:7, Matthew 6:7, Proverbs 10:19, Proverbs 10:19, Isaiah 55:9

3For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.

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Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 10:19, Proverbs 10:19, Ecclesiastes 10:12

4When you vow a vow to God, do not defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

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Numbers 30:2, Numbers 30:2, Deuteronomy 23:21, Deuteronomy 23:23, Deuteronomy 23:21

5It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

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Acts 5:4, Acts 5:4, Proverbs 20:25, Proverbs 20:25, Deuteronomy 23:22

6Do not allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Do not protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

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James 1:26, James 1:26, 2 John 1:8, 2 John 1:8, James 3:2

7For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.

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Ecclesiastes 12:13, Matthew 12:36, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Matthew 12:36, Ecclesiastes 8:12

8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, do not marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

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Psalms 12:5, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Psalms 12:5, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Ecclesiastes 3:16

9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

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1 Kings 4:7, 1 Kings 4:23, Proverbs 28:19, 1 Kings 4:7, 1 Kings 4:23

10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

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1 Timothy 6:10, 1 Timothy 6:10, Matthew 6:24, Matthew 6:24, Luke 12:15

11When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

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1 John 2:16, 1 John 2:16, Habakkuk 2:13, Habakkuk 2:13, Psalms 119:36

12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

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Proverbs 3:24, Proverbs 3:24, Psalms 4:8, Psalms 127:2, Jeremiah 31:26

13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

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Ecclesiastes 6:1, Ecclesiastes 6:2, Ecclesiastes 6:1, Ecclesiastes 6:2, Luke 18:22

14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

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Proverbs 23:5, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Haggai 2:16, Haggai 2:17, Haggai 1:9

15As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

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Psalms 49:17, Job 1:21, Psalms 49:17, Job 1:21, 1 Timothy 6:7

16This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

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Ecclesiastes 1:3, Proverbs 11:29, Ecclesiastes 1:3, Proverbs 11:29, Mark 8:36

17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

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Psalms 127:2, Psalms 127:2, 1 Corinthians 11:30, 1 Corinthians 11:32, Psalms 90:7

18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

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Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 3:12, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 3:22

19Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor-this is the gift of God.

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Deuteronomy 8:18, Deuteronomy 8:18, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 6:2

20For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

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Isaiah 65:21, Isaiah 65:24, Isaiah 65:13, Isaiah 65:14, Isaiah 65:21