Ecclesiastes 5:1
You should not speak anything rashly, nor should your heart be hasty to present a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth. For this reason, let your words be few.
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In Context
2Dreams follow many worries, and in many words foolishness will be found.
Cross References
Genesis 4:3Then it happened, after many days, that Cain offered gifts to the Lord, from the fruits of the earth.
Exodus 3:5And he said: “Lest you should approach here, remove the shoes from your feet. For the place on which you stand is holy ground.”
Joshua 5:15Joshua fell prone on the ground. And reverencing, he said, “What does my lord say to his servant?”
1 Samuel 15:21But the people took some of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the first-fruits of those things that were slain, to immolate to the Lord their God at Gilgal.”
Job 11:2Will he who speaks much, not also listen? Or will a talkative man be justified?
Psalms 50:8For behold, you have loved truth. The obscure and hidden things of your wisdom, you have manifested to 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 →