The Bible, King James version, Book 21: Ecclesiastes — John Shaqi
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The Bible, King James version, Book 21: Ecclesiastes
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Bible. Ecclesiastes
21:004:010 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to
him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to
help him up.
21:004:011 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can
one be warm alone?
21:004:012 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a
threefold cord is not quickly broken.
21:004:013 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish
king, who will no more be admonished.
21:004:014 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is
born in his kingdom becometh poor.
21:004:015 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the
second child that shall stand up in his stead.
21:004:016 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been
before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in
him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
21:005:001 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.
21:005:002 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.
21:005:003 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a
fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
21:005:004 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.
21:005:005 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou
shouldest vow and not pay.
21:005:006 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?
21:005:007 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also
divers vanities: but fear thou God.
21:005:008 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.
21:005:009 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself
is served by the field.
21:005:010 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor
he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
21:005:011 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?
21:005:012 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.
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