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Read Full Chapter (Ecclesiastes 5) Ecclesiastes 5:6 KJV
"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?"
Ecclesiastes 5:6 in Context (Verses 3–9 KJV)
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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
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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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Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
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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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For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
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¶ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.*
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¶ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.