Ecclesiastes 5:2

Dremes suen many bisynessis, and foli schal be foundun in many wordis.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1Speke thou not ony thing folily, nether thin herte be swift to brynge forth a word bifore God; for God is in heuene, and thou art on erthe, therfor thi wordis be fewe.

3If thou hast avowid ony thing to God, tarie thou not to yelde; for an vnfeithful and fonned biheest displesith hym; but `yelde thou what euer thing thou hast avowid;

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Cross References

Genesis 18:30Abraham seide, Lord, Y biseche, take thou not to indignacioun, if Y speke; what if thretti be foundun there? The Lord answerde, Y schal not do, if Y schal fynde thretti there.

Genesis 28:20Also he auowide a vow, and seide, If God is with me, and kepith me in the weie in which Y go, and yyueth to me looues to ete, and clothis to be clothid,

Leviticus 5:4A soule that swerith, and bryngith forth with hise lippis, that it schulde do ether yuel, ether wel, and doith not, and confermeth the same thing with an ooth, ethir with a word, and foryetith, and aftirward vndirstondith his trespas, do it penaunce for synne,

Judges 11:30and made a vow to the Lord, and seide, If thou schalt bitake the sones of Amon in to myn hondis,

Psalms 115:3What schal Y yelde to the Lord; for alle thingis which he yeldide to me?

Proverbs 20:25Falling of man is to make auow to seyntis, and aftirward to withdrawe the vowis.

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