Ecclesiastes 5:1
\5:2\Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
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Genesis 4:3And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth.
Exodus 3:5And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.
Joshua 5:15And the captain of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. And Joshua did so.
1 Samuel 15:21But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.
Job 11:2Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?
Psalms 50:8I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:1
Solomon, in this chapter, discourses, I. Concerning the worship of God, prescribing that as a remedy against all those vanities which he had already observed to be in wisdom, learning, pleasure, honour, power, and business. That we may not be deceived by those things, nor have our spirits vexed with the disappointments we meet with in them, let us make conscience of our duty to God and keep up our communion with him; but, withal, he gives a necessary caution against the vanities which are too often found in… Read the whole commentary →