Ecclesiastes 5:2

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

1Be 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

3Whenever thou shalt vow a vow to God, 1 Defer not to pay it; 1 For he has no pleasure in fools: 1 Pay thou therefore whatsoever thou shalt have vowed. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 18:30And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I shall speak? but if there be found there thirty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the thirty’s sake.

Genesis 28:20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If the Lord God will be with me, and guard me throughout on this journey, on which I am going, and give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Leviticus 5:4That unrighteous soul, which determines with his lips to do evil or to do good according to whatsoever a man may determine with an oath, and it shall have escaped his notice, and he shall afterward know it, and so he should sin in some one of these things—

Judges 11:30And Jephthah vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

Psalms 115:3What shall I render to the Lord 1 For all the things wherein he has rewarded me? 1

Proverbs 20:25It is a snare to a man hastily to consecrate some of his own property: 1 For in that case repentance comes after vowing. 1

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 →

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