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1 LET your conduct be seemly when you go to the house of God; and to draw near to hear is better than the gift offerings of fools; for they know not to do that which is good. 2 Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter a word before God; for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few. 3 For a dream comes because of the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words. 4 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it; for he has no pleasure in fools; but as for you, pay that which you have vowed. 5 It is much better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not fulfill it. 6 Suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say before God that it was an error, lest God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands. 7 For in the multitude of dreams and vain things and many words is false worship; but you should worship God. 8 If you see the oppression of the poor and violent perversion of judgment and justice in a city, do not marvel at the matter; for he who is higher than the highest is watching; and he who is higher is over them. 9 Moreover the riches of the earth are for all; the king, himself, is served by cultivating his own field. 10 He who loves money shall not be satisfied with money; and he who loves wealth shall not retain it. This is also vanity. 11 When goods increase, they also are increased who eat them; and what profit is there to their owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes? Ecclesiastes 5:1-11, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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