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Ecclesiastes 5:1

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Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

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Ecclesiastes 5:1 in other translations

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

Ecclesiastes 5:1 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 5:1 in context

  1. 1Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
  2. 2Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
  3. 3For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.