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|Eclesiastes 5:1| Be in no hurry to speak; do not hastily declare yourself before God; for God is in heaven, you on earth. Be sparing, then, of speech:
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|Eclesiastes 5:2| From too much worrying comes illusion, from too much talking, the accents of folly.
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|Eclesiastes 5:3| If you make a vow to God, discharge it without delay, for God has no love for fools. Discharge your vow.
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|Eclesiastes 5:4| Better a vow unmade than made and not discharged.
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|Eclesiastes 5:5| Do not allow your mouth to make a sinner of you, and do not say to the messenger that it was a mistake. Why give God occasion to be angry with you and ruin all the work that you have done?
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|Eclesiastes 5:6| From too many illusions come futility and too much talk. Therefore, fear God.
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|Eclesiastes 5:7| If in a province you see the poor oppressed, fair judgement and justice violated, do not be surprised, for over every official there watches a higher official, and over these, higher officials still.
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|Eclesiastes 5:8| But what the land yields is for the benefit of all, a king is served by the fields.
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|Eclesiastes 5:9| No one who loves money ever has enough, no one who loves luxury has any income; this, too, is futile.
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|Eclesiastes 5:10| Where goods abound, parasites abound: where is the owner's profit, apart from feasting his eyes?
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