Ecclesiastes 5:2
Dreams follow many worries, and in many words foolishness will be found.
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Genesis 18:30“I ask you,” he said, “not to be angry, Lord, if I speak. What if thirty were found there?” He responded, “I will not act, if I find thirty there.”
Genesis 28:20And then he made a vow, saying: “If God will be with me, and will guard me along the way by which I walk, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
Leviticus 5:4The soul who swears and offers from his own lips that he would do either evil or good, and who will have bound the same with an oath and with his own words, and, having forgotten it, afterwards understands his transgression,
Judges 11:30he made a vow to the Lord, saying, “If you will deliver the sons of Ammon into my hands,
Psalms 115:3What shall I repay to the Lord, for all the things that he has repaid to me?
Proverbs 20:25It is ruin for a man to devour what is holy, or, after making vows, to retract them.
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 →