Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
Guard
your
steps
when you
go
to the house of God .
Draw
near
to listen
rather
than to offer
the sacrifice of fools ,
who
do
not know
that they do wrong
.
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
.
Do
not
be quick
to
speak
, and do
not be hasty in
your
heart
to utter a
word
before God .
After
all,
God is in heaven and you
are
on
earth .
So
let your
words be few.
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.
As
a dream comes
through many
cares,
so
the speech
of a fool
comes
with
many
words.
For
a dream cometh
through the multitude
of business;
and
a fool's
voice
is
known
by
multitude
of
words.
When you
make
a vow to
God, do
not delay
in
fulfilling
it ,
because
He takes
no pleasure in fools .
Fulfill
your
vow
.
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
.
It
is
better not to
vow than to
make
a
vow and not fulfill
it
.
Better is
it
that
thou
shouldest
not vow ,
than that
thou
shouldest
vow and not pay
.
Do
not let
your
mouth cause your
flesh to sin ,
and
do
not
tell
the messenger
that your
vow
was a
mistake.
Why
should God be angry with
your
words
and destroy the work of your
hands?
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?
For as
many
dreams bring
futility,
so
do
many words .
Therefore,
fear God.
For in
the
multitude
of
dreams and
many words there
are
also
divers
vanities:
but
fear thou
God.
If you
see
the oppression of the poor and the
denial
of justice
and righteousness
in the
province, do
not be
astonished
at the matter ;
for one
official
is watched
by
a
superior,
and others
higher still
are
over
them
.
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
.
The produce
of the earth is taken
by
all ;
the king himself profits
from
the fields
.
Moreover
the profit
of the earth is for
all :
the king himself is
served
by
the field
.
He who
loves
money
is
never
satisfied by
money,
and
he who
loves
wealth
is
never
satisfied
by
income.
This too
is futile
.
He that
loveth
silver
shall
not
be
satisfied with
silver;
nor
he that
loveth
abundance
with
increase:
this is also
vanity
.
When good
things
increase, so
do
those
who
consume
them ;
what then
is the
profit
to the owner
, except
to
behold
them with his
eyes?
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?
The sleep of the
worker
is sweet, whether he eats
little or much ,
but the abundance of the rich man
permits
him no
sleep.
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.
There is a grievous
evil I have seen under the sun :
wealth
hoarded
to
the
harm
of
its
owner
,
There is a sore
evil which
I have seen under the sun, namely,
riches
kept
for
the
owners
thereof
to
their
hurt.
or
wealth
lost
in
a
failed
venture,
so
when
that
man
has
a son there is nothing to
pass
on
.
But
those
riches
perish
by
evil
travail:
and
he
begetteth
a son ,
and
there is nothing in
his
hand
.
As a
man
came from
his mother’s
womb, so
he
will
depart
again,
naked as
he arrived.
He takes
nothing for
his labor
to
carry in his hands
.
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
.
This too
is a grievous
evil :
Exactly
as a
man
is
born
, so he will
depart.
What does
he
gain
as
he toils
for the wind?
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?
Moreover,
all his days he eats
in darkness, with
much sorrow ,
sickness,
and anger
.
All his days also
he eateth
in darkness, and
he
hath
much sorrow and wrath
with
his
sickness
.
Here
is
what
I have seen to
be
good and fitting:
to eat and drink, and to find
satisfaction
in
all
the labor
one
does
under the sun during
the few
days of life that
God has
given
him —
for this
is his lot
.
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
.
Furthermore,
God has
given riches and wealth to
every
man
, and He
has
enabled
him to enjoy
them
, to accept
his lot
, and to rejoice in his labor.
This is a
gift from
God.
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.
For a
man
seldom
considers
the days of his life ,
because God keeps
him occupied
with
the joy of his heart.
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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