Ecclesiastes 5:1-6 ▼

1 (4:17) When thou commest into the house of God, kepe thy foote and drawe nye, that God which is at hande may heare that thou geue not the offerynges of fooles: for they knowe naught but to do euyll.

2 (5:1) Be not hastye with thy mouth, and let not thine heart speake any thyng rashly before God: For God is in heauen, and thou vpon earth, therfore let thy wordes be fewe.

3 (5:2) For where much carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: and where many wordes are, there men may heare fooles.

4 (5:3) If thou make a vowe vnto God, be not slacke to perfourme it: As for foolish vowes he hath no pleasure in them: yf thou promise any thyng, pay it.

5 (5:4) For better is it that thou make no vowe, then that thou shouldest promise and not pay.

6 (5:5) Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy fleshe for to sinne, neither say thou before the angell that it is thy ignoraunce: for then God wyll be angry at thy voyce, and destroy all the worke of thyne handes.