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98221 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:3
3 For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
98222 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:4
4 When you vow a vow to God, do not defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
98223 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:5
5 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
98224 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:6
6 Do 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?
98225 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:7
7 For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.
98226 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:8
8 If 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.
98227 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:9
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
98228 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:10
10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
98229 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:11
11 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
98230 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:12
12 The 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.
98231 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:13
13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
98232 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:14
14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
98233 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:15
15 As 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.
98234 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:16
16 This 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?
98235 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:17
17 All his days are in darkness and mourning, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
98236 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:18
18 Look, 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.
98237 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:19
19 Every 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.
98238 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 5:20
20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.
98239 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 6:5
5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
98240 New Heart English Bible — Ecclesiastes 7:5
5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.