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