Ecclesiastes 5
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Ecclesiastes 5:2-5

2Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.1

3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.

4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

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Notes

  1. 1. Ecclesiastes 5:2 thing: or, word. ↩

Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 5

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