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Chapter 5
1 Speak not any thing rashly, and let not your heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.
2 Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
3 If you have vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeases him: but whatsoever you have vowed, pay it.
4 And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform the things promised.
5 Give not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at your words, and destroy all the works of your hands.
6 Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do you fear God.
7 If you shall 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 has another higher, and there are others still higher than these:
8 Moreover there is the king that reigns over all the land subject to him.
9 A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loves riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.
10 Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what does it profit the owner, but that he sees the riches with his eyes?
11 Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
12 There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.
13 For they are lost with very great affliction: he has begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.
14 As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.
15 A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then does it profit him that he has laboured for the wind?
16 All the days of his life he eats in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.
17 This therefore has seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he has laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God has given him: and this is his portion.
18 And every man to whom God has given riches, and substance, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.
19 For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertains his heart with delight,