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Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 5 · verses 4–5
4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. 5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 in context
2Be 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.
3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
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Key words (Strong's)
- pleasurechêphetspleasureH2656 →
- vowestnâdarto promiseH5087 →
- Betterṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
- deferʼâcharto loiterH309 →
- foolskᵉçîylproperly, fatH3684 →
- vownedera promiseH5088 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
- payshâlamto be safeH7999 →
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Four things we are exhorted to in these verses: - I. To be conscientious in paying our vows. 1. A vow is a bond upon the soul (Num 30:2), by which we solemnly oblige ourselves, not only, in general, to do that which we are already bound to do, but, in some particular instances, to do that to do which we were not under…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-8