Ecclesiastes 5:1

Be not hasty with thy mouth, 1 And let not thy heart be swift 1 To utter anything before God; 1 For God is in heaven above, and thou upon earth: 1 Therefore let thy words be few. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; 1 And a fool’s voice is with a multitude of words. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 4:3And it was so after some time that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord.

Exodus 3:5And he said, Draw not nigh hither: loose thy sandals from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Joshua 5:15And the captain of the Lord’s host said to Joshua, Loose thy shoe off thy feet, for the place whereon thou now standest is holy.

1 Samuel 15:21But the people took of the spoils the best flocks and herds out of that which was destroyed, to sacrifice before the Lord our God in Gilgal.

Job 11:2He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: 1 Or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? 1 Blessed is the short-lived offspring of woman. 1

Psalms 50:8For, behold, thou lovest truth: 1 Thou hast manifested to me the secret and hidden things of thy wisdom. 1

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 →

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