These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ecclesiastes 5
Tanakh 20 verses
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Guard thy foot when thou goest to the house of , and be ready to hearken: it is better than when fools give sacrifices; for they not that they do evil.
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Proverbs 15:8 Exodus 3:5 1 Peter 2:1-2 Jeremiah 7:21-23 Isaiah 1:12-20 Psalm 89:7 Isaiah 66:3 Hebrews 12:28-29 Joshua 5:15 Hosea 6:6-7 James 1:19 Proverbs 21:27 Malachi 1:10-11 1 Corinthians 11:22 2 Chronicles 26:16 Leviticus 10:3 Hebrews 10:26 Genesis 4:3-5 Psalm 50:8-18 Genesis 28:16-17 1 Samuel 15:21-22 Acts 10:33 1 Samuel 13:12-13 - 2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy be hasty to utter a before ; for is in , and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.
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For a dream cometh through a multitude of business; And a fool’s voice through a multitude of words.
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- 4 When thou vowest a vow unto , defer not to pay it; for He hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou vowest.
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Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
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- 6 Suffer not thy mouth to bring thy into guilt, neither say thou before the messenger, that it was an error; wherefore should be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
- 7 For through the multitude of dreams and vanities there are also many words; but thou .
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If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent perverting of justice and in the state, marvel not at the matter; for one higher than the high watcheth, and there are higher than they.
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Psalm 12:5 Ecclesiastes 4:1 Ecclesiastes 3:16 Psalm 82:1 Amos 8:4-7 Isaiah 57:15 Isaiah 10:12 Matthew 13:41-42 Luke 1:35 Job 27:8-23 Jeremiah 22:17-19 Micah 6:10-13 Acts 4:27-28 Habakkuk 1:2-3 Amos 5:12 1 John 3:13 1 Chronicles 21:15-16 Luke 1:32 Isaiah 59:13-16 Malachi 3:5 Amos 6:2-6 Isaiah 3:15 Amos 6:12 Job 20:19-29 Zechariah 8:6 Ezekiel 22:6-14 Micah 3:9-12 Psalm 55:9 Isaiah 37:36 Psalm 83:18 Psalm 95:3 Psalm 58:10-11 Psalm 140:11-12 Isaiah 10:5-7 Isaiah 5:7 Micah 2:1-3 Habakkuk 1:12-13 1 Peter 4:12 1 Kings 21:19-20 Micah 3:1-4 Acts 12:23 Romans 11:33 Revelation 17:6-7 Psalm 10:17-18 James 5:2-7 Acts 12:7-10 Micah 2:9 Isaiah 46:10-11 Luke 1:76 Proverbs 8:17 James 2:13 Zechariah 7:9-13 - 9 But the profit of a land every way is a that maketh himself to the field.
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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase; this also is vanity.
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- 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, saving the beholding of them with his eyes?
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Sweet is the sleep of a labouring man, whether he eat little or much; but the satiety of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
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There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt;
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Ecclesiastes 6:1-2 Genesis 19:14 Genesis 19:26 Ecclesiastes 8:9 Luke 16:19 Proverbs 1:19 Luke 16:1-13 Isaiah 32:6-8 Proverbs 11:24-25 Genesis 14:16 Proverbs 1:32 Proverbs 1:11-13 Luke 12:16-21 Genesis 19:31-38 Zephaniah 1:18 Luke 18:22-23 Luke 16:22-23 Proverbs 11:4 Genesis 13:5-11 Ecclesiastes 4:8 1 Timothy 6:9-10 Isaiah 2:20 James 2:5-7 James 5:1-4 Luke 19:8 - 14 and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
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As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go back as he came, and shall take nothing for his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
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- 16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit hath he that he laboureth for the wind?
- 17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much vexation and sickness and wrath.
- 18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good, yea, it is comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy pleasure for all his labour, wherein he laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which hath given him; for this is his portion.
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Every man also to whom 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 of .
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- 20 For let him the days of his life that they are not many; for answereth him in the joy of his .