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Ecclesiastes

Chapter 5

KJV · Textus Receptus

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.
2 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.
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, than that thou shouldest 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 than the highest 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, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding 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.
14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
15 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.
16 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?
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
18 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.
19 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.
20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

Asante Twi

1Hwɛ wo nan yie ɛberɛ a worekɔ Onyankopɔn fie, na siesie wo ho sɛ wobɛtie, sene sɛ wobɛbɔ nkwaseafoɔ afɔreɛ: ɛfiri sɛ wɔnnim sɛ wɔyɛ bɔne.Under pastoral review
2Mmpere wo ho wɔ w'ano ho, na mma w'akoma nnyɛ ntɛm nka biribi wɔ Onyankopɔn anim: ɛfiri sɛ Onyankopɔn wɔ ɔsoro, na wo wɔ asase so: ɛno enti ma wo nsɛm nyɛ kakra.Under pastoral review
3Ɛfiri sɛ daeɛ firi adwuma bebree mu ba; na wɔhunu ɔkwasea nne wɔ nsɛm bebree mu.Under pastoral review
4Sɛ wohyɛ bɔhyɛ ma Onyankopɔn a, nntwentwɛn wo nan ase wɔ ne tua ho; ɛfiri sɛ ɔnni anigyeɛ wɔ nkwaseafoɔ mu: tua deɛ woahyɛ ho bɔ no.Under pastoral review
5Ɛyɛ sɛ worenhyɛ bɔ, sene sɛ wobɛhyɛ bɔ na woantua.Under pastoral review
6Mma w'ano mma wo honam nnyɛ bɔne; na nka wɔ ɔbɔfoɔ anim sɛ, ɛyɛ mfomsoɔ: adɛn nti na ɛsɛ sɛ Onyankopɔn bo fu wo nne ho, na ɔsɛe wo nsa ano adwuma?Under pastoral review
7Ɛfiri sɛ daeɛ bebree ne nsɛm bebree mu no, ahuhudeɛ ahodoɔ nso wɔ mu: nanso suro Onyankopɔn.Under pastoral review
8Sɛ wohunu ohiani nhyɛsoɔ, ne atemmuo ne tenenee a wɔkyea no basabasa wɔ amantam bi mu a, mma ɛnnyɛ wo nwanwa: ɛfiri sɛ deɛ ɔkorɔn sene ɔkorɔnfoɔ no hwɛ; na wɔn a wɔkorɔn sene wɔn wɔ hɔ.Under pastoral review
9Bio, asase mfasoɔ wɔ hɔ ma wɔn nyinaa: afuo no som ɔhene no ankasa mpo.Under pastoral review
10Deɛ ɔdɔ dwetɛ no, dwetɛ remmee no; na deɛ ɔdɔ ahonyadeɛ nso, mfasoɔ remmee no: yei nso yɛ ahuhudeɛ.Under pastoral review
11Sɛ ahodeɛ dɔɔso a, wɔn a wɔdi no nso dɔɔso: na papa bɛn na ɛwɔ hɔ ma ɛwuranom, gye sɛ wɔde wɔn ani hwɛ no?Under pastoral review
12Odwumayɛni nna yɛ dɛ, sɛ ɔdi kakra anaa bebree: nanso ɔdefoɔ ahonyadeɛ remma no nna.Under pastoral review
13Bɔne a ano yɛ den bi wɔ hɔ a mahunu wɔ owia ase, ahonyadeɛ a wɔkora so ma ɛwuranom de haw wɔn.Under pastoral review
14Nanso saa ahonyadeɛ no sɛe wɔ ɔbrɛ bɔne mu: na ɔwo ɔba, na hwee nni ne nsam.Under pastoral review
15Sɛdeɛ ɔfiri ne maame yam baeɛ no, adagya na ɔbɛsane akɔ sɛdeɛ ɔbaeɛ, na ɔremfa n'adwuma mu biribiara nkɔ, deɛ ɔbɛtumi asoa akɔ ne nsam.Under pastoral review
16Na yei nso yɛ bɔne a ano yɛ den, sɛ sɛdeɛ ɔbaeɛ no, saa ara na ɔbɛkɔ wɔ akwan nyinaa mu: na mfasoɔ bɛn na deɛ wabrɛ ama mframa no nya?Under pastoral review
17Ne nna nyinaa nso ɔdidi wɔ esum mu, na ɔwɔ awerɛhoɔ ne abufuo bebree ka ne yadeɛ ho.Under pastoral review
18Hwɛ deɛ mahunu: ɛyɛ na ɛfata sɛ obi bɛdidi na wanom, na wanya n'adwuma nyinaa a ɔyɛ wɔ owia ase ne nkwa nna nyinaa mu, deɛ Onyankopɔn de ma no no mu papa adi: ɛfiri sɛ ɛno ne ne kyɛfa.Under pastoral review
19Onipa biara nso a Onyankopɔn ama no ahonyadeɛ ne ahodeɛ, na wama no tumi sɛ ɔnni bi, na ɔmfa ne kyɛfa, na ɔnni ahurusie wɔ n'adwuma mu; yei yɛ Onyankopɔn akyɛdeɛ.Under pastoral review
20Ɛfiri sɛ ɔrenkae ne nkwa nna no pii; ɛfiri sɛ Onyankopɔn bua no wɔ n'akoma mu anigyeɛ mu.Under pastoral review

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