{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/ecclesiastes/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T22:56:19.963Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Ecclesiastes","bookSlug":"ecclesiastes","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":12,"totalVerses":20},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king himself is dependent upon the field."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding of them with his eyes?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go away again as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Behold what I have seen good and comely: it is to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith man laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth him with the joy of his heart."}],"citation":{"inline":"Ecclesiastes 5 (DBT)","markdown":"[Ecclesiastes 5](https://primebible.com/dbt/ecclesiastes/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/ecclesiastes/5 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}