Ecclesiastes 5:3-13

Ecclesiastes 5:3-13

[3] For a dream  cometh  through the multitude  of business;  and a fool's  voice  is known by multitude  of words.  [4] 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.  [5] Better  is it that thou shouldest not vow,  and not pay.  [6] 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?  [7] For in the multitude  of dreams  and many  words  there are also divers vanities:  but fear  thou God.  [8] 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  regardeth;  and there be higher  than they.  [9] Moreover the profit  of the earth  is for all: the king  himself is served  by the field.  [10] He that loveth  silver  shall not be satisfied  with silver;  nor he that loveth  abundance  with increase:  this is also vanity.  [11] When goods  increase,  that eat  them: and what good  is there to the owners  thereof, saving  of them with their eyes?  [12] 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.  [13] There is  a sore  evil  which I have seen  under the sun,  namely, riches  kept  for the owners  thereof to their hurt.