Ecclesiastes 5:2
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth. Therefore let thy words be few.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
Cross References
Genesis 18:30And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Perhaps there shall be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
Genesis 28:20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
Leviticus 5:4Or if a soul swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it be that a man shall utter rashly with an oath, and it be hid from him, when he realizes it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
Judges 11:30And Jephthah vowed a vow to LORD, and said, If thou will indeed deliver the sons of Ammon into my hand,
Psalms 115:3But our God is in the heavens. He has done whatever he pleased.
Proverbs 20:25It is a snare to a man to say rashly, [It is] holy. And to make inquiry after vows.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:2-4
A Caution to Worshippers. 1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. 2 Be 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. 3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. Solomon's design, in driving us off from the world, by… Read the whole commentary →