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5:1   Watch your step whenever you visit God's house, and come more ready to listen than to offer a fool's sacrifice, since fools never think they're doing evil.
5:2   Don't be impulsive with your mouth nor be in a hurry to talk in God's presence. Since God is in heaven and you're on earth, keep your speech short.
5:3  Too many worries lead to nightmares, and a fool is known from talking too much.
5:4  When you make a promise to God, don't fail to keep it, since he isn't pleased with fools. Keep what you promise—
5:5  it's better that you don't promise than that you do promise and not follow through.
5:6  Never let your mouth cause you to sin and don't proclaim in the presence of the angel, "My promise was a mistake," for why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy what you've undertaken?
5:7  In spite of many daydreams, pointless actions, and empty words, it is more important to fear God.
5:8  Don't be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them.
5:9  Also, the increase of the land belongs to everyone; the king himself is served by his field.
5:10  Whoever loves money will never have enough money. Whoever loves luxury will not be content with abundance. This also is pointless.
5:11  When possessions increase, so does the number of consumers; therefore what good are they to their owners, except to look at them?
5:12  Sweet is the sleep of a working man, whether he eats a little or a lot, but the excess wealth of the rich will not allow him to rest.
5:13  I have observed a painful tragedy on earth: Wealth hoarded by its owner harms him,
5:14  and that wealth is lost in troubled circumstances. Then a son is born, but there is nothing left for him.
5:15  Just as he came naked from his mother's womb, he will leave as naked as he came; he will receive no profit from his efforts— he cannot carry away even a handful.
5:16  This is also a painful tragedy: However a person comes, he also departs; so what does he gain as he labors after the wind?
5:17  Furthermore, all his days he lives in darkness with great sorrow, anger, and affliction.
5:18  Look! I observed that it is good and prudent to eat, drink, and enjoy all that is good of a person's work that he does on earth during the limited days of his life, which God gives him, for this is his allotment.
5:19  Furthermore, for every person to whom God has given wealth, riches, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept this allotment, and to rejoice in his work—this is a gift from God.
5:20  For he will not brood much over the days of his life, since God will keep him occupied with the joys of his heart.