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Bible study · Ecclesiastes 5:1-20

Ecclesiastes 5: Guard your steps

Read Ecclesiastes 5:1-20 before you meet.

In a few lines

In Hebrew, the chapter's first command, "Guard your steps" (5:1), and its "you must fear God" (5:7) are the two commands of the book's last words: "Fear God and keep his commandments" (12:13). And the verb of "God occupies him with the joy of his heart" (5:20) is the one behind "to be afflicted with" (1:13).

The verse to carry

“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.”

Ecclesiastes 5:2

To talk about

  1. 1. "to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools" (5:1). What helps you listen when you come to worship God?

  2. 2. "The sleep of a laboring man is sweet" (5:12). What has made rest sweet for you after a day's work?

  3. 3. "this is the gift of God" (5:19). What ordinary good thing in your week would you call a gift of God?

Prayer requests