Ecclesiastes 5:1-5 ▼

1 Guard your step when you go to the house of God. Draw near for obedience, rather than for the fools’ offering of sacrifice; for they know not how to keep from doing evil.

2 Be not hasty in your utterance and let not your heart be quick to utter a promise in God’s presence. God is in heaven and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.

3 As dreams come along with many cares, so a fool’s voice along with a multitude of words.

4 When you make a vow to God, delay not its fulfillment. For God has no pleasure in fools; fulfill what you have vowed.

5 It is better not to make a vow than make it and not fulfill it.