Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiastes 5:2-10 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

2. Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.

3. If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.

4. And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform the things promised.

5. Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and destroy all the works of thy hands.

6. Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.

7. If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

8. Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.

9. A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.

10. Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?