Ecclesiastes 5

1 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.

to keep: guard (foot your *Q(K)*) like/as as which to go: went to(wards) house: temple [the] God and to present: come to/for to hear: hear from to give: give [the] fool sacrifice for nothing they to know to/for to make: do bad: evil

2 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.

not to dismay upon lip your and heart your not to hasten to/for to come out: speak word to/for face: before [the] God for [the] God in/on/with heaven and you(m. s.) upon [the] land: country/planet upon so to be word your little

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

for to come (in): come [the] dream in/on/with abundance task and voice fool in/on/with abundance word

4 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.

like/as as which to vow vow to/for God not to delay to/for to complete him for nothing pleasure in/on/with fool [obj] which to vow to complete

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

pleasant which not to vow (from which/that to vow *L(abh)*) and not to complete

6 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?

not to give: allow [obj] lip your to/for to sin [obj] flesh your and not to say to/for face: before [the] messenger for unintentionally he/she/it to/for what? be angry [the] God upon voice your and to destroy [obj] deed: work hand your

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

for in/on/with abundance dream and vanity and word to multiply for [obj] [the] God to fear: revere

8 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.

if oppression be poor and robbery justice and righteousness to see: see in/on/with province not to astounded upon [the] pleasure for high from upon high to keep: look at and high upon them

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

and advantage land: country/planet in/on/with all (he/she/it *Q(K)*) king to/for land: country to serve: labour

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

to love: lover silver: money not to satisfy silver: money and who? to love: lover in/on/with crowd not produce also this vanity

11 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?

in/on/with to multiply [the] welfare to multiply to eat her and what? skill to/for master her that if: except if: except (sight *Q(K)*) eye his

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.

sweet sleep [the] to serve: labour if little and if to multiply to eat and [the] abundance to/for rich nothing he to rest to/for him to/for to sleep

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

there distress: evil be weak: grieved to see: see underneath: under [the] sun riches to keep: guard to/for master his to/for distress: harm his

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

and to perish [the] riches [the] he/she/it in/on/with task bad: harmful and to beget son: child and nothing in/on/with hand his anything

15 As he came out of 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.

like/as as which to come out: come from belly: womb mother his naked to return: again to/for to go: went like/as which/that to come (in): come and anything not to lift: raise in/on/with trouble his which/that to go: take in/on/with hand his

16 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?

and also this distress: evil be weak: grieved all close which/that to come (in): come so to go: went and what? advantage to/for him which/that to toil to/for spirit: breath

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

also all day his in/on/with darkness to eat and to provoke to multiply and sickness his and wrath

18 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.

behold which to see: see I pleasant which beautiful to/for to eat and to/for to drink and to/for to see: enjoy welfare in/on/with all trouble his which/that to toil underneath: under [the] sun number day (life his *Q(k)*) which to give: give to/for him [the] God for he/she/it portion his

19 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.

also all [the] man which to give: give to/for him [the] God riches and wealth and to domineer him to/for to eat from him and to/for to lift: bear [obj] portion his and to/for to rejoice in/on/with trouble his this gift God he/she/it

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

for not to multiply to remember [obj] day life his for [the] God to afflict in/on/with joy heart his