Ecclesiastes 5:2
Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 18:30Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I And thirty there.
Genesis 28:20And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
Leviticus 5:4The person that sweareth, and uttereth with his lips, that he would do either evil or good, and bindeth the same with an oath, and his word, and having forgotten it afterwards understandeth his offence,
Judges 11:30He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,
Psalms 115:3The sorrows of death have encompassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:
Proverbs 20:25It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract.
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 →