1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.
2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in the heavens, 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 through a 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 inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
7 For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear 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 a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.
9 Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king {himself} is dependent upon the field.
10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding {of them} with his eyes?
12 The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.
13 There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
14 or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go away again 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 doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.
18 Behold what I have seen good and comely: {it is} to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith {man} laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.
19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God.
20 For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth {him} with the joy of his heart.
1 你到 神的殿， 脚步要谨慎； 近前聆听， 胜于愚昧人献祭， 因为他们不知道所作的是恶的。（本节在《马索拉抄本》为4:17）
2 在 神面前不可冒失开口， 心急发言， 因为 神在天上， 你在地上， 所以你的言语要寡少。（本节在《马索拉抄本》为5:1）
3 挂虑多就令人作梦， 言语多就显出愚昧。
4 你向 神许了愿， 就不可迟迟不还， 因为他不喜悦愚昧人； 所许的愿必须偿还。
5 许愿不还， 不如不许。
6 不可任你的口把自己陷于罪恶， 也不可在使者前面说是许错了。何必使 神因你的声音发怒， 破坏你手中的工作呢？
7 多梦和多话， 都是虚空的， 你只要敬畏 神。
8 如果你在一省之中， 看到穷人遭受欺压， 公正和公义被夺去， 也不必因此惊讶， 因为高位者之上有较高的照应， 在他们之上还有更高的。
9 各人都从土地得着利益， 就是君王也得到田地的供应。
10 贪爱银子的， 不因有银子满足； 贪爱财富的， 也不因得利知足。这也是虚空。
11 财物增加， 吃用的人也增加， 物主除了眼看以外， 还有什么益处呢？
12 劳力的人无论吃多吃少， 都睡得甜； 财主的丰足， 却不容他安睡。
13 我看见日光之下有一令人痛心的憾事， 就是财主积聚财富， 反受其害。
14 遭遇祸患， 财富就尽失； 他即使生了儿子， 也没有什么留给他。
15 他怎样从母胎赤身而来， 也必怎样赤身而去； 在劳碌中得来的， 他的手也带不走什么。
16 他怎样来， 也要怎样去， 这也是令人痛心的憾事； 他为风劳碌， 有什么益处呢？
17 他终生在黑暗中吃喝， 多有愁烦、疾病与愤怨。
18 我认为既善又美的， 就是人在 神所赐给他一生有限的年日中吃喝， 享受他在日光之下劳碌所得的一切， 因为这是他的分。
19 蒙 神赐予财富与资产的人， 神都使他能够享用， 并取自己的分， 在劳碌中自得其乐， 这是 神的恩赐。
20 他不多思念自己一生的年日， 因为 神使喜乐充满他的心。