Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
Approaching God with Awe

1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

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2 Be 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.

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3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice [is known] by multitude of words.

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4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

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5 Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

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6 Suffer 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?

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7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.

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