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Ecclesiastes 5 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:1 - Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:2 - Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:3 - As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:4 - When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:5 - It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:6 - Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:7 - Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:8 - If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:9 - It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

The Folly of Riches

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:10 - He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:11 - When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:12 - The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:13 - There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:14 - And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:16 - And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:17 - All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:18 - This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:19 - Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:20 - He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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