Ecclesiastes:5:1-7
geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @ Keep thy (note:)That is, with what affection you come to hear the word of God.(:note) foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of Meaning, of the wicked, who think to please God with common uses, and have neither faith nor repentance. fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:2 @ Be not (note:)Either in vowing or in praying, meaning, that we should use all reverence toward God.(:note) rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be He hears you not for the sake of your many words or often repetitions, but considers your faith and servant's mind. few.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:3 @ {\cf2 (5:2)} For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:4 @ When thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast (note:)He speaks of vows which are approved by God's word and serve to his glory.(:note) vowed.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:5 @ {\cf2 (5:4)} It is better that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay it.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:6 @ Allow not thy mouth to cause thy (note:)Do not cause yourself to sin by vowing rashly as they do who make a vow to live unmarried and such like.(:note) flesh to sin; neither say thou before the That is, before God's messenger when he will examine your doing, as though your ignorance should be a just excuse. angel, that it [was] an error: why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:7 @ {\cf2 (5:6)} For in the multitude of dreames, and vanities are also many wordes: but feare thou God.
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