SinaiEcclesiastes 5:2
World English Bible
Don’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.
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Ecclesiastes 5:2 in other translations
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 in context
- 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.
- 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.
- 3For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
- 4When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.