Eclesiastes 5

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1 Guarda os teus passos quando entrares na casa de Deus, e te achegues a ouvir em vez de oferecer sacrifícios de tolos, pois não sabem que fazem mal. 2 Não te precipites com tua boca, nem te apresses com teu coração, a pronunciar palavra alguma perante a face de Deus; porque Deus está nos céus, e tu estás na terra; por isso, que tuas palavras sejam poucas. 3 Pois, como os sonhos vêm das muitas ocupações, assim também o excesso de palavras vem da voz do tolo. 4 Quando fizeres algum voto a Deus, não demores em pagá-lo; porque ele não se agrada de tolos. Paga o voto que fizeres. 5 Melhor é que não faças voto, do que fazeres um voto, e não o pagares. 6 Não permitas que a tua boca faça a tua carne pecar; nem digas perante o mensageiro que foi um mero erro; por que provocarias a ira de Deus com a tua voz, para que ele destrua a obra de tuas mãos? 7 Porque, como na abundância de sonhos há futilidades, assim, também, há abundância de palavras; tu, porém, teme a Deus. 8 Se vires em algum território a opressão dos pobres, e a violência contra o direito e a justiça, não te surpreendas de tal caso; porque o oficial tem uma autoridade maior que o supervisiona; e acima de ambos há outros que têmautoridade ainda maior. 9 E o proveito da terra é para todos; até o rei se serve do campo. 10 O que amar o dinheiro nunca se saciará do dinheiro; e quem amar a riqueza, nunca se saciará do lucro; isso também é futilidade. 11 Onde os bens se multiplicam, ali se multiplicam também os que os cosomem; e que proveito pois tem seus donos, a não ser somente ver as riquezas com seus próprios olhos? 12 Doce é o sono do trabalhador, quer coma pouco, quer muito; porém a fartura do rico não o deixa dormir. 13 Há um mal causador de sofrimentos que vi abaixo do sol: as riquezas que seus donos guardam para seu próprio mal. 14 Porque as mesmas riquezas se perdem com negócios malsucedidos; e quando gera algum filho, nada lhe fica em sua mão. 15 Assim como ele saiu do ventre de sua mãe, nu ele voltará, indo-se como veio; e nada tomará de seu trabalho, que possa levar em sua mão. 16 De maneira que isto também é um mal causador de sofrimentos, que exatamente como veio, assim se vai; e que proveito ele teve em trabalhar para o vento? 17 Além disso, ele comeu em trevas todos os seus dias; sofreu muito, e teve enfermidades e irritações. 18 Eis o que eu vi, algo bom e belo: comer, beber, e experimentar o que é bom de todo o seu trabalho em que trabalhou abaixo do sol, durante os dias de sua vida, que Deus lhe deu; porque isto é a parte que lhe pertence. 19 E todo homem a quem Deus deu riquezas e bens, e lhe deu poder para comer delas, e tomar sua parte, e se alegrar de seu trabalho; isto é presente de Deus. 20 Pois ele não se lembrará muito dos dias de sua vida, porque Deus lhe responde com alegria de seu coração.

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Eclesiastes 5:1

Ec 5:1-20.

1. From vanity connected with kings, he passes to vanities (Ec 5:7) which may be fallen into in serving the King of kings, even by those who, convinced of the vanity of the creature, wish to worship the Creator.

Keep thy foot--In going to worship, go with considerate, circumspect, reverent feeling. The allusion is to the taking off the shoes, or sandals, in entering a temple (Ex 3:5; Jos 5:15, which passages perhaps gave rise to the custom). Weiss needlessly reads, "Keep thy feast days" (Ex 23:14, 17; the three great feasts).

hear--rather, "To be ready (to draw nigh with the desire) to hear (obey) is a better sacrifice than the offering of fools" [Holden]. (Vulgate; Syriac). (Psa 51:16, 17; Pr 21:3; Jr 6:20; 7:21-23; 14:12; Am 5:21-24). The warning is against mere ceremonial self-righteousness, as in Ec 7:12. Obedience is the spirit of the law's requirements (De 10:12). Solomon sorrowfully looks back on his own neglect of this (compare 1Ki 8:63 with Ec 11:4, 6). Positive precepts of God must be kept, but will not stand instead of obedience to His moral precepts. The last provided no sacrifice for wilful sin (Nu 15:30, 31; He 10:26-29).

Eclesiastes 5:2

2. rash--opposed to the considerate reverence ("keep thy foot," Ec 5:1). This verse illustrates Ec 5:1, as to prayer in the house of God ("before God," Is 1:12); so Ec 5:4-6 as to vows. The remedy to such vanities is stated (Ec 5:6). "Fear thou God."

God is in heaven--Therefore He ought to be approached with carefully weighed words, by thee, a frail creature of earth.

Eclesiastes 5:3

3. As much "business," engrossing the mind, gives birth to incoherent "dreams," so many words, uttered inconsiderately in prayer, give birth to and betray "a fool's speech" (Ec 10:14), [Holden and Weiss]. But Ec 5:7 implies that the "dream" is not a comparison, but the vain thoughts of the fool (sinner, Psa 73:20), arising from multiplicity of (worldly) "business." His "dream" is that God hears him for his much speaking (Mt 6:7), independently of the frame of mind [English Version and Maurer].

fool's voice--answers to "dream" in the parallel; it comes by the many "words" flowing from the fool's "dream."

Eclesiastes 5:4

4. When thou vowest a vow unto God--Hasty words in prayer (Ec 5:2, 3) suggest the subject of hasty vows. A vow should not be hastily made (Jud 11:35; 1Sa 14:24). When made, it must be kept (Psa 76:11), even as God keeps His word to us (Ex 12:41, 51; Jos 21:45).

Eclesiastes 5:6

6. thy flesh--Vow not with "thy mouth" a vow (for example, fasting), which the lusts of the flesh ("body," Ec 2:3, Margin) may tempt thee to break (Pr 20:25).

angel--the "messenger" of God (Job 33:23); minister (Re 1:20); that is, the priest (Mal 2:7) "before" whom a breach of a vow was to be confessed (Le 5:4, 5). We, Christians, in our vows (for example, at baptism, the Lord's Supper, &c.) vow in the presence of Jesus Christ, "the angel of the covenant" (Mal 3:1), and of ministering angels as witnesses (1Co 11:10; 1Ti 5:21). Extenuate not any breach of them as a slight error.

Eclesiastes 5:7

7. (See on Ec 5:3). God's service, which ought to be our chief good, becomes by "dreams" (foolish fancies as of God's requirements of us in worship), and random "words," positive "vanity." The remedy is, whatever fools may do, "Fear thou God" (Ec 12:13).

Eclesiastes 5:8

8. As in Ec 3:16, so here the difficulty suggests itself. If God is so exact in even punishing hasty words (Ec 5:1-6), why does He allow gross injustice? In the remote "provinces," the "poor" often had to put themselves for protection from the inroads of Philistines, &c., under chieftains, who oppressed them even in Solomon's reign (1Ki 12:4).

the matter--literally, "the pleasure," or purpose (Is 53:10). Marvel not at this dispensation of God's will, as if He had abandoned the world. Nay, there is coming a capital judgment at last, and an earnest of it in partial punishments of sinners meanwhile.

higher than the highest--(Da 7:18).

regardeth--(2Ch 16:9).

there be higher--plural, that is, the three persons of the Godhead, or else, "regardeth not only the 'highest' kings, than whom He 'is higher,' but even the petty tyrants of the provinces, namely, the high ones who are above them" (the poor) [Weiss].

Eclesiastes 5:9

9. "The profit (produce) of the earth is (ordained) for (the common good of) all: even the king himself is served by (the fruits of) the field" (2Ch 26:10). Therefore the common Lord of all, high and low, will punish at last those who rob the "poor" of their share in it (Pr 22:22, 23; Am 8:4-7).

Eclesiastes 5:10

10. Not only will God punish at last, but meanwhile the oppressive gainers of "silver" find no solid "satisfaction" in it.

shall not be satisfied--so the oppressor "eateth his own flesh" (see on Ec 4:1 and Ec 4:5).

with increase--is not satisfied with the gain that he makes.

Eclesiastes 5:11

11. they ... that eat them--the rich man's dependents (Psa 23:5).

Eclesiastes 5:12

12. Another argument against anxiety to gain riches. "Sleep ... sweet" answers to "quietness" (Ec 4:6); "not suffer ... sleep," to "vexation of spirit." Fears for his wealth, and an overloaded stomach without "laboring" (compare Ec 4:5), will not suffer the rich oppressor to sleep.

Eclesiastes 5:13-14

13-14. Proofs of God's judgments even in this world (Pr 11:31). The rich oppressor's wealth provokes enemies, robbers, &c. Then, after having kept it for an expected son, he loses it beforehand by misfortune ("by evil travail"), and the son is born to be heir of poverty. Ec 2:19, 23 gives another aspect of the same subject.

Eclesiastes 5:16

16. Even supposing that he loses not his wealth before death, then at least he must go stripped of it all (Psa 49:17).

laboured for the wind--(Ho 12:1; 1Co 9:26).

Eclesiastes 5:17

17. eateth--appropriately put for "liveth" in general, as connected with Ec 5:11, 12, 18.

darkness--opposed to "light (joy) of countenance" (Ec 8:1; Pr 16:15).

wrath--fretfulness, literally, "His sorrow is much, and his infirmity (of body) and wrath."

Eclesiastes 5:18

18. Returns to the sentiment (Ec 3:12, 13, 22); translate: "Behold the good which I have seen, and which is becoming" (in a man).

which God giveth--namely, both the good of his labor and his life.

his portion--legitimately. It is God's gift that makes it so when regarded as such. Such a one will use, not abuse, earthly things (1Co 7:31). Opposed to the anxious life of the covetous (Ec 5:10, 17).

Eclesiastes 5:19

19. As Ec 5:18 refers to the "laboring" man (Ec 5:12), so Ec 5:19 to the "rich" man, who gets wealth not by "oppression" (Ec 5:8), but by "God's gift." He is distinguished also from the "rich" man (Ec 6:2) in having received by God's gift not only "wealth," but also "power to eat thereof," which that one has not.

to take his portion--limits him to the lawful use of wealth, not keeping back from God His portion while enjoying his own.

Eclesiastes 5:20

20. He will not remember much, looking back with disappointment, as the ungodly do (Ec 2:11), on the days of his life.

answereth ... in the joy--God answers his prayers in giving him "power" to enjoy his blessings. Gesenius and Vulgate translate, "For God (so) occupies him with joy," &c., that he thinks not much of the shortness and sorrows of life. Holden, "Though God gives not much (as to real enjoyment), yet he remembers (with thankfulness) the days; for (he knows) God exercises him by the joy," &c. (tries him by prosperity), so Margin, but English Version is simplest.

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