Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ecclesiastes 5:6 in context
Ecclesiastes 5:3–9
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For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
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When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
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It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
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Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
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For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
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If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
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Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
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