1 Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

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 Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God, for God is in heaven, and you are on earth; therefore, let your words be few.

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 comes through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

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

4 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay to pay it, for He has no pleasure in fools; pay what you have vowed.

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 It is better not to vow than to vow and not pay.

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

6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the angel that it was an error; why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

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 various vanities; but fear God.

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

8 If you see the oppression of the poor and the violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for He who is higher than the highest regards, and there are higher than they.

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.

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

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

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 who eat them increase, and what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?

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

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 grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners to their hurt.

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 through misfortune, and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

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

15 As he came from his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor which he may carry away in his hand.

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 grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

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 he also eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

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

18 Behold, what I have seen: it is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it is his portion.

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 has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

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 will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

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