21:005:005 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow,
than that thou
shouldest
vow and not pay.
21:005:006 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh
to sin; neither say
thou
before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore
should
God
be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine
hands?
21:005:007 For in the multitude of dreams and many
words there are also
divers
vanities: but fear thou God.
21:005:008 If thou seest the oppression of the poor,
and violent
perverting
of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not
at
the matter: for he that is higher than the highest
regardeth;
and there be higher than they.
21:005:009 Moreover the profit of the earth is for
all: the king himself
is
served by the field.
21:005:010 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied
with silver; nor
he
that loveth abundance with increase: this is also
vanity.
21:005:011 When goods increase, they are increased
that eat them: and
what
good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding
of
them with their eyes?
21:005:012 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet,
whether he eat little
or
much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer
him to
sleep.
21:005:013 There is a sore evil which I have seen
under the sun, namely,
riches
kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
21:005:014 But those riches perish by evil travail:
and he begetteth a
son,
and there is nothing in his hand.
21:005:015 As he came forth of his mother’s
womb, naked shall he return
to
go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour,
which
he
may carry away in his hand.
21:005:016 And this also is a sore evil, that in all
points as he came,
so
shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath
laboured for
the
wind?
21:005:017 All his days also he eateth in darkness,
and he hath much
sorrow
and wrath with his sickness.
21:005:018 Behold that which I have seen: it
is good and comely for one
to
eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his
labour
that
he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which
God
giveth him: for it is his portion.
21:005:019 Every man also to whom God hath given riches
and wealth, and
hath
given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion,
and
to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
21:005:020 For he shall not much remember the days
of his life; because
God
answereth him in the joy of his heart.
21:006:001 There is an evil which I have seen under
the sun, and it is
common
among men:


