1Look well to thy feet, when thou goest to the house of God, and draw nigh to hear, rather than to offer sacrifice as fools. For they consider not that they do evil.

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

2Be not hasty with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be swift to utter any thing before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth. Therefore let thy words be few.

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

3For a dream cometh with much bustle, and a fool’s voice 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 thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools. Pay that which thou hast vowed.

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

5Better is it that thou shouldst not vow than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.

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

6Suffer not thy mouth to bring punishment on thy flesh, and say not before the angel, "It was a mistake." Wherefore should God be angry on account of thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

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

7For in a multitude of dreams is a multitude of vanities; so also in a multitude of words; but fear thou God!

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

8If thou seest oppression of the poor, and justice and equity perverted in a province, be not alarmed at the matter. For over the high there is a higher, who watcheth, and there is one higher than they all.

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

9An advantage to a land in all respects is a king over cultivated ground.

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

10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and he that loveth riches shall have no profit from them. 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, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage hath the owner thereof, save the beholding of 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

12Sweet is the sleep of a laboring man, whether he have eaten little or much; but the repletion of the rich will not suffer 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 sore evil which I have seen under the sun, —riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt.

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

14For those riches perish by some calamity, and, if he have 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, so shall he go away again, as he came, and shall take away nothing of his labor which he may carry in his hand.

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

16This is also a sore evil, that, in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit is there to him who toileth for wind?

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

17Also all his days he ate in darkness, and had much grief and anxiety and vexation.

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

18Behold, what I have seen is, that it is good and proper for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor which he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him; for it is his portion.

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

19To whatever man also God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him to enjoy them, 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 will not much remember the days of his life; for God answereth 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