Ecclesiastes 5:4

and it is myche betere to make not a vowe, than aftir a vowe to yelde not biheestis.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

In Context

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;

5Yyue thou not thi mouth, that thou make thi fleisch to do synne; nether seie thou bifor an aungel, No puruyaunce is; lest perauenture the Lord be wrooth on thi wordis, and distruye alle the werkis of thin hondis.

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Cross References

Genesis 35:1Yn the mene tyme the Lord spak to Jacob, Ryse thou, and stie to Bethel, and dwelle thou there, and make thou an auter to the Lord, that apperide to thee whanne thou fleddist Esau, thi brother.

Numbers 30:2And he spak to the princes of the lynagis of the sones of Israel, This is the word, which the Lord comaundide, If ony of men makith a vowe to the Lord,

Psalms 50:14Yiue thou to me the gladnesse of thyn helthe; and conferme thou me with the principal spirit.

Psalms 76:11And Y seide, Now Y bigan; this is the chaunging of the riythond of `the hiye God.

Psalms 147:10He dide not so to ech nacioun; and he schewide not hise domes to hem.

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