MLV(i)
1 Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, for to draw near to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they do not know that they do evil.
2 Do not be rash with your mouth and do not let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God. Because God is in heaven and you upon earth. Therefore let your words be few. 3 Because a dream comes the greatness of the task and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
4 When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it, because he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. 5 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay. 6 Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands? 7 Because there are vanities in the multitude of dreams and in many words. But fear God.
8 If you see the oppression of a poor man and the violent robbery of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. Because a man higher than the high is observing and there are higher men than they. 9 Moreover the abundance of the land is for all. The king himself is served by the field.
10 He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased who eat them. And what advantage is there to the owner of it, except the beholding of them with his eyes?
12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun; riches were kept by its owner to his evil. 14 And those riches perish by an evil task. And if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand. 15 As he came out from his mother's womb, naked will he go again as he came and will take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand. 16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so he will go. And what profit has he that he labored for the wind? 17 All his days also he eats in gloom and he is greatly troubled and has depression and anger.
18 Behold, what I have seen to be good and to be fitting is for a man to eat and to drink and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, because this is his portion.
19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth and has given him power to eat of it and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labor–this is the gift of God. 20 Because he will not remember much the days of his life, because God answers him in the joy of his heart.
2 Do not be rash with your mouth and do not let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God. Because God is in heaven and you upon earth. Therefore let your words be few. 3 Because a dream comes the greatness of the task and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
4 When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it, because he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. 5 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay. 6 Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands? 7 Because there are vanities in the multitude of dreams and in many words. But fear God.
8 If you see the oppression of a poor man and the violent robbery of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. Because a man higher than the high is observing and there are higher men than they. 9 Moreover the abundance of the land is for all. The king himself is served by the field.
10 He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased who eat them. And what advantage is there to the owner of it, except the beholding of them with his eyes?
12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun; riches were kept by its owner to his evil. 14 And those riches perish by an evil task. And if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand. 15 As he came out from his mother's womb, naked will he go again as he came and will take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand. 16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so he will go. And what profit has he that he labored for the wind? 17 All his days also he eats in gloom and he is greatly troubled and has depression and anger.
18 Behold, what I have seen to be good and to be fitting is for a man to eat and to drink and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, because this is his portion.
19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth and has given him power to eat of it and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labor–this is the gift of God. 20 Because he will not remember much the days of his life, because God answers him in the joy of his heart.