Ecclesiastes 5:1

Be not rash with thy mouth, nor let thine heart be hastie to vtter a thing before God: for God is in the heauens, and thou art on the earth: therefore let thy wordes be fewe.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:3And in processe of time it came to passe, that Kain brought an oblation vnto the Lord of the fruite of the ground.

Exodus 3:5Then he saide, Come not hither, put thy shooes off thy feete: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Joshua 5:15And the captaine of ye Lords host said vnto Ioshua, Loose thy shoe of thy foote: for ye place wheron thou standest, is holy: and Ioshua did so.

1 Samuel 15:21But the people tooke of the spoyle, sheepe, and oxen, and the chiefest of the things which shoulde haue bene destroyed, to offer vnto the Lord thy God in Gilgal.

Job 11:2Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified?

Psalms 50:8I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.

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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