Ecclesiastes 5:2

Do not be too quick to speak with your mouth, 2 and do not let your heart be too quick to bring any matter up before God. 1 God is in heaven, but you are on earth, 2 so let your words be few. 1

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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

1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not understand that they are doing what is wrong. 1

3If you have too many things to do and worry about, you will probably have bad dreams. 2 The more words you speak, the more foolish things you will probably say.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:30He said, “Please do not be angry, Lord, so I may speak. Perhaps thirty will be found there.” He replied, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.”

Genesis 28:20Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will protect me on this road on which I am walking, and will give me bread to eat, and clothes to wear,

Leviticus 5:4Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man swears rashly with an oath, even if he is unaware of it, when he learns about it, then he will be guilty, in any of these things.

Judges 11:30Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh and said, “If you give me victory over the people of Ammon,

Psalms 115:3Our God is in heaven; 1 he does whatever he pleases. 1

Proverbs 20:25It is a snare for a person to say rashly, “This thing is holy,” 1 and begin to think about what it means only after making his vow. 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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