Ecclesiastes 5

Verse 1

WEB Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

KJV 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.

TSK thy foot: ge 28:16,17, ex 3:5, le 10:3, jos 5:15, 2ch 26:16, ps 89:7, isa 1:12-20, 1co 11:22, heb 12:28,29; ready: ac 10:33, ac 17:11, jas 1:19, 1pe 2:1,2; give: ge 4:3-5, 1sa 13:12,13, 1sa 15:21,22, ps 50:8-18, pr 15:8, pr 21:27, isa 1:12-15, isa 66:3, jer 7:21-23, ho 6:6,7, mal 1:10,11, heb 10:26

Verse 2

WEB Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

KJV 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.

TSK not rash: ge 18:27,30,32, ge 28:20,22, nu 30:2-5, jud 11:30, 1sa 14:24-45, mr 6:23; for: ps 115:3, isa 55:9, mt 6:9; let thy: ec 5:3,7, pr 10:19, mt 6:7, jas 3:2

Verse 3

WEB For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

KJV For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

TSK a fool's: ec 10:12-14, pr 10:19, pr 15:2

Verse 4

WEB When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

KJV 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.

TSK vowest: ge 28:20, ge 35:1,3, nu 30:2, de 23:21-23, ps 50:14, ps 76:11, ps 119:106, isa 19:21, mt 5:33; for: ps 147:10,11, mal 1:10, heb 10:6; pay: ps 66:13,14, ps 116:14,16-18, jon 2:9

Verse 5

WEB It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

KJV Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

TSK Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.: de 23:22, pr 20:25, ac 5:4

Verse 6

WEB Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

KJV 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?

TSK thy mouth: ec 5:1,2, jas 1:26, jas 3:2; before: le 5:4,5, ge 48:16, ho 12:4,5, mal 2:7, mal 3:1, ac 7:30-35, 1co 11:10, 1ti 5:21, heb 1:14; it was: le 5:4-6, le 27:9,10; destroy: hag 1:9-11, hag 2:14-17, 1co 3:13-15, 2jo 1:8

Verse 7

WEB For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.

KJV For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

TSK in the: ec 5:3, mt 12:36; but: ec 7:18, ec 8:12, ec 12:13, pr 23:17, isa 50:10,11

Verse 8

WEB If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

KJV 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.

TSK thou seest: ec 3:16, ec 4:1, ps 12:5, ps 55:9, ps 58:11, pr 8:17, hab 1:2,3,13; marvel: zec 8:6, 1jo 3:13, re 17:6,7; matter: isa 10:5-7,12, isa 46:10,11, hab 1:12, ac 4:27,28, ro 11:33; for: isa 57:15, lu 1:32,35,76; regardeth: 1ki 21:19,20, job 20:19-29, job 27:8-23, ps 10:17,18, ps 12:5, ps 58:10,11, ps 82:1, ps 83:18, ps 140:11,12, isa 3:15, isa 5:7, isa 59:13-16, jer 22:17-19, eze 22:6-14, am 5:12, am 6:2-6,12, am 8:4-7, mic 2:1-3,9, mic 3:1-4,9-12, mic 6:10-13, zec 7:9-13, mal 3:5, jas 2:13, jas 5:2-7; higher than they: 1ch 21:15,16, ps 95:3, isa 37:36, mt 13:41,42, ac 12:7-10,23

Verse 9

WEB Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

KJV Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

TSK the profit: ge 1:29,30, ge 3:17-19, ps 104:14,15, ps 115:16, pr 13:23, pr 27:23-27, pr 28:19, jer 40:10-12; the king: 1sa 8:12-17, 1ki 4:7-23, 1ch 27:26-31

Verse 10

WEB He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

KJV He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

TSK He that: ec 4:8, ec 6:7, ps 52:1,7, ps 62:10, pr 30:15,16, hab 2:5-7, mt 6:19,24, lu 12:15, 1ti 6:10; this: ec 1:17, ec 2:11,17,18,26, ec 3:19, ec 4:4,8,16

Verse 11

WEB When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

KJV 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?

TSK they: ge 12:16, ge 13:2,5-7, 1ki 4:22,23, 1ki 5:13-16, ne 5:17,18, ps 119:36,37; what: ec 6:9, ec 11:9, jos 7:21-25, pr 23:5, jer 17:11, hab 2:13, 1jo 2:16

Verse 12

WEB The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

KJV 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.

TSK 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.: ps 4:8, ps 127:2, pr 3:24, jer 31:26

Verse 13

WEB There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

KJV There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

TSK a sore: ec 4:8, ec 6:1,2; riches: ec 8:9, ge 13:5-11, ge 14:16, ge 19:14,26,31-38, pr 1:11-13,19,32, pr 11:4,24,25, isa 2:20, isa 32:6-8, zep 1:18, lu 12:16-21, lu 16:1-13,19,22,23, lu 18:22,23, lu 19:8, 1ti 6:9,10, jas 2:5-7, jas 5:1-4

Verse 14

WEB Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

KJV But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

TSK those: ec 2:26, job 5:5, job 20:15-29, job 27:16,17, ps 39:6, pr 23:5, hag 1:9, hag 2:16,17, mt 6:19,20; and he: 1sa 2:6-8,36, 1ki 14:26, ps 109:9-12

Verse 15

WEB As he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

KJV 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.

TSK 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.: job 1:21, ps 49:17, lu 12:20, 1ti 6:7

Verse 16

WEB This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

KJV 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?

TSK a sore: ec 5:13, ec 2:22,23; what: 1sa 12:21, jer 2:8, mr 8:36; for: ec 1:3, pr 11:29, isa 26:18, ho 8:7, joh 6:27

Verse 17

WEB All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

KJV All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

TSK he eateth: ge 3:17, 1ki 17:12, job 21:25, ps 78:33, ps 102:9, ps 127:2, eze 4:16,17; much: 2ki 1:2,6, 2ki 5:27, 2ch 16:10-12, 2ch 24:24,25, ps 90:7-11, pr 1:27-29, ac 12:23, 1co 11:30-32

Verse 18

WEB Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

KJV 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.

TSK it is good and comely: ec 2:24, ec 3:12,13,22, ec 8:15, ec 9:7, ec 11:9, 1ti 6:17; it is his: ec 2:10, ec 3:22, jer 52:34

Verse 19

WEB Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

KJV 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.

TSK to whom: ec 2:24, ec 3:13, ec 6:2, de 8:18, 1ki 3:13; this is: ec 2:24-26

Verse 20

WEB For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

KJV For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

TSK For he shall not much remember: ps 37:16; because: de 28:8-12,47, ps 4:6,7, isa 64:5, isa 65:13,14,21-24, ro 5:1,5-11