Turning to God, the Preacher counsels reverence: guard your steps in God’s house, be quick to listen and slow to speak, and pay what you vow, “for God is the one you must fear.” He exposes the emptiness of loving money (“he who loves money will not be satisfied with money”) and of hoarded wealth that harms its owner or is lost. Better to accept one’s lot and find joy in one’s work, “for this is the gift of God.”
Ecclesiastes study chapter
Ecclesiastes 5
c. 935 BCReverence in worship, the emptiness of loving money, and receiving one’s lot from God.
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