Ecclesiastes 5:5
Suffer not your mouth to lead your flesh to sin; and say not in the presence of God, It was an error: lest God be angry at your voice, and destroy the works of your hands.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
In Context
4It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
6For there is evil in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear you God.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:22But if you should be unwilling to vow, it is not sin in you.
Malachi 2:7For the priest's lips + 2:7 Gr. shall. should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:5-9
The Obligation of a Vow. 4 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. 5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.… Read the whole commentary →