1Keep 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 1:19Heb 12:28-29Prov 15:81 Pet 2:1-2Isa 1:12-20Exod 3:5Josh 5:15Prov 21:271 Cor 11:22Gen 28:16-17
2Be 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 6:7Prov 10:19Isa 55:9Matt 6:9Eccl 5:3Eccl 5:7Gen 18:27Num 30:2-5Gen 28:20Jas 3:2
3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 15:2Prov 10:19Eccl 10:12-14Job 11:2
4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 30:2Deut 23:21-23Ps 76:11Matt 5:33Ps 66:13-14Ps 50:14Ps 119:106Heb 10:6Mal 1:10Ps 116:14
5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 5:4Deut 23:22Prov 20:25
6Suffer 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? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 1:262 John 1:8Jas 3:2Eccl 5:1-2Mal 2:7Lev 5:4-6Gen 48:161 Cor 3:13-15Num 15:25Heb 1:14
7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 12:36Eccl 12:13Eccl 8:12Eccl 5:3Isa 50:10-11Prov 23:17Eccl 7:18Eccl 3:14
8If 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 12:5Eccl 4:1Eccl 3:161 Kgs 21:19-20Matt 13:41-42Ps 58:10-11Ps 82:1Rev 17:6-71 Chr 21:15-16Acts 12:23
9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 4:7-23Ps 115:16Gen 1:29-30Ps 104:14-151 Chr 27:26-311 Sam 8:12-17Gen 3:17-19Jer 40:10-12Prov 13:23Prov 27:23-27
10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Tim 6:10Matt 6:24Luke 12:15Matt 6:19Eccl 4:8Eccl 4:4Eccl 2:26Ps 62:10Ps 52:7Hab 2:5-7
11When 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? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 John 2:16Hab 2:13Prov 23:5Ps 119:36-37Eccl 6:91 Kgs 5:13-16Eccl 11:9Gen 12:16Gen 13:2Gen 13:5-7
12The 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 3:24Ps 4:8Jer 31:26Ps 127:2
13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 6:1-2Luke 18:22-23Gen 19:14Luke 16:22-23Jas 5:1-4Eccl 4:8Eccl 8:9Gen 14:16Isa 32:6-8Luke 12:16-21
14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 2:26Hag 1:9Hag 2:16-17Job 20:15-29Job 5:5Matt 6:19-20Prov 23:51 Kgs 14:261 Sam 2:361 Sam 2:6-8
15As 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 1:21Ps 49:171 Tim 6:7Luke 12:20
16And 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? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 1:3Prov 11:29Mark 8:36Eccl 5:13John 6:271 Sam 12:21Eccl 2:22-23Hos 8:7Isa 26:18Jer 2:8
17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 127:21 Cor 11:30-321 Kgs 17:122 Chr 16:10-122 Chr 24:24-252 Kgs 1:22 Kgs 1:62 Kgs 5:27Acts 12:23Ezek 4:16-17
18Behold 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 2:24Eccl 3:12-13Eccl 3:22Eccl 9:71 Tim 6:17Eccl 2:10Eccl 8:15Eccl 11:9Jer 52:34
19Every 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 8:18Eccl 3:13Eccl 6:22 Chr 1:12Eccl 2:24-261 Kgs 3:13
20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 65:13-14Isa 65:21-24Ps 37:16Ps 4:6-7Rom 5:1Deut 28:47Deut 28:8-12Isa 64:5Rom 5:5-11