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Ecclesiastes Chapter 5

Ecclesiastes
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Ecclesiastes

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In this chapter the wise man reflects on the futility of human toil and the vanity of seeking pleasure, noting that even the most diligent work is ultimately meaningless. He urges listeners to pay attention to the simple pleasures of life and to consider the fleeting nature of all things.

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(1) Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
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Genesis 28:16Genesis 28:17Exodus 3:5Leviticus 10:3Joshua 5:15II Chronicles 26:16Psalms 89:7Isaiah 1:12Isaiah 1:13Isaiah 1:14Isaiah 1:15Isaiah 1:16

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I Samuel 16:5Ezekiel 39:17

(2) Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
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Genesis 18:27Genesis 18:30Genesis 18:32Genesis 28:20Genesis 28:22Numbers 30:2Numbers 30:3Numbers 30:4Numbers 30:5Judges 11:30I Samuel 14:24I Samuel 14:25

(3) For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
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Ecclesiastes 10:12Ecclesiastes 10:13Ecclesiastes 10:14Proverbs 10:19Proverbs 15:2

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Judges 7:12II Kings 7:13Psalms 42:4Isaiah 29:5Ezekiel 14:4Ezekiel 27:18

(4) When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
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Genesis 28:20Genesis 35:1Genesis 35:3Numbers 30:2Deuteronomy 23:21Deuteronomy 23:22Deuteronomy 23:23Psalms 50:14Psalms 76:11Psalms 119:106Isaiah 19:21Matthew 5:33

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II Samuel 15:7Deuteronomy 23:21Ecclesiastes 5:5Numbers 6:21Jonah 2:9Psalms 76:11

(5) Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
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Deuteronomy 23:22Proverbs 20:25Acts 5:4

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Obadiah 1:12Deuteronomy 23:21II Kings 14:10II Chronicles 25:19Job 7:17Job 10:3

(6) 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?
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Ecclesiastes 5:1Ecclesiastes 5:2James 1:26James 3:2Leviticus 5:4Leviticus 5:5Genesis 48:16Hosea 12:4Hosea 12:5Malachi 2:7Malachi 3:1Acts 7:30

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II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15II Samuel 14:11Revelation 11:18

(7) For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
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Ecclesiastes 5:3Matthew 12:36Ecclesiastes 7:18Ecclesiastes 8:12Ecclesiastes 12:13Proverbs 23:17Isaiah 50:10Isaiah 50:11

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Judges 5:30

(8) 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.
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Ecclesiastes 3:16Ecclesiastes 4:1Psalms 12:5Psalms 55:9Psalms 58:11Proverbs 8:17Habakkuk 1:2Habakkuk 1:3Habakkuk 1:13Zechariah 8:6I John 3:13Revelation 17:6

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Isaiah 55:9Daniel 8:3Job 36:17Romans 14:6

(9) Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
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Genesis 1:29Genesis 1:30Genesis 3:17Genesis 3:18Genesis 3:19Psalms 104:14Psalms 104:15Psalms 115:16Proverbs 13:23Proverbs 27:23Proverbs 27:24Proverbs 27:25

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Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5

(10) He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 4:8Ecclesiastes 6:7Psalms 52:1Psalms 52:7Psalms 62:10Proverbs 30:15Proverbs 30:16Habakkuk 2:5Habakkuk 2:6Habakkuk 2:7Matthew 6:19Matthew 6:24

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Exodus 38:17I Chronicles 29:2Genesis 23:16Exodus 27:17Exodus 38:19Leviticus 27:6

(11) 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?
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Genesis 12:16Genesis 13:2Genesis 13:5Genesis 13:6Genesis 13:7I Kings 4:22I Kings 4:23I Kings 5:13I Kings 5:14I Kings 5:15I Kings 5:16Nehemiah 5:17

(12) 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.
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Psalms 4:8Psalms 127:2Proverbs 3:24Jeremiah 31:26

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Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33Psalms 13:3Proverbs 4:16Proverbs 6:9Jeremiah 51:39

(13) There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
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Ecclesiastes 4:8Ecclesiastes 6:1Ecclesiastes 6:2Ecclesiastes 8:9Genesis 13:5Genesis 13:6Genesis 13:7Genesis 13:8Genesis 13:9Genesis 13:10Genesis 13:11Genesis 14:16

(14) But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
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Ecclesiastes 2:26Job 5:5Job 20:15Job 20:16Job 20:17Job 20:18Job 20:19Job 20:20Job 20:21Job 20:22Job 20:23Job 20:24

(15) 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.
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Job 1:21Psalms 49:17Luke 12:20I Timothy 6:7

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Job 1:21Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

(16) 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?
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Ecclesiastes 5:13Ecclesiastes 2:22Ecclesiastes 2:23I Samuel 12:21Jeremiah 2:8Mark 8:36Ecclesiastes 1:3Proverbs 11:29Isaiah 26:18Hosea 8:7John 6:27

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I Kings 19:11

(17) All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
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Genesis 3:17I Kings 17:12Job 21:25Psalms 78:33Psalms 102:9Psalms 127:2Ezekiel 4:16Ezekiel 4:17II Kings 1:2II Kings 1:6II Kings 5:27II Chronicles 16:10

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Romans 14:3Romans 14:6Job 10:22Zephaniah 1:15Matthew 6:23I John 2:11

(18) 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.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24Ecclesiastes 3:12Ecclesiastes 3:13Ecclesiastes 3:22Ecclesiastes 8:15Ecclesiastes 9:7Ecclesiastes 11:9I Timothy 6:17Ecclesiastes 2:10Jeremiah 52:34

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Ecclesiastes 9:9Ecclesiastes 8:15Ecclesiastes 2:10Ezekiel 45:7Ecclesiastes 1:3

(19) 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.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24Ecclesiastes 3:13Ecclesiastes 6:2Deuteronomy 8:18I Kings 3:13Ecclesiastes 2:25Ecclesiastes 2:26

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Ecclesiastes 2:10Ezekiel 45:7Ecclesiastes 6:2Ecclesiastes 4:8

(20) For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
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Psalms 37:16Deuteronomy 28:8Deuteronomy 28:9Deuteronomy 28:10Deuteronomy 28:11Deuteronomy 28:12Deuteronomy 28:47Psalms 4:6Psalms 4:7Isaiah 64:5Isaiah 65:13Isaiah 65:14

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Leviticus 26:42Isaiah 9:3

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