Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Watch your step whenever you visit God's house, and come more ready to listen than to offer a fool's sacrifice, since fools never think they're doing evil.
A Conservative Version
Keep thy foot when thou go to the house of God, for to draw near to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they know not that they do evil.
American Standard Version
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.
Amplified
Guard your steps and focus on what you are doing as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the [careless or irreverent] sacrifice of fools; for they are too ignorant to know they are doing evil.
Bible in Basic English
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
Darby Translation
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.
Julia Smith Translation
Watch thy feet when thou shalt go to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than give the sacrifice of the foolish, for they not knowing the doing of evil.
King James 2000
Guard your steps when you go 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; draw near to listen [rather] than to offer a sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Be not hasty with thy mouth,
NET Bible
Be careful what you do when you go to the temple of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice like fools, for they do not realize that they are doing wrong.
New Heart English Bible
Guard your step when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.
The Emphasized Bible
Keep thy foot, when thou goest unto the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than dullards to offer sacrifice, - for they make no acknowledgment of doing wrong.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.
Youngs Literal Translation
Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.
Themes
Awe » For the aged » For the sanctuary
Fools » Worship of, hateful to God
Formalism » The insufficiency of
Hearing » Spiritual of believers
Heedfulness » Necessary » In the house and worship of God
Religion » Formalism » The insufficiency of
Speech/communication » How not to speak
Spiritual » Hearing » Spiritual of believers
Worship » Divinity of Christ » True attitude in
true and false Worship » Divinity of Christ of heavenly bodies » Of God, universal
Topics
Interlinear
Shamar
Regel
Yalak
Qarowb
Shama`
Nathan
Yada`
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 5:1
Prayers for Ecclesiastes 5:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Listen To God Rather Than Uttering Rash Vows
1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil. 2 Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.
Names
Cross References
Exodus 3:5
And He said, Do not come near here. Pull off your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is a hateful thing to Jehovah, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Psalm 89:7
God is greatly to be feared in the congregation of the saints, and to be adored by all around Him.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is hateful to God; how much more when he brings it with a wicked mind?
Isaiah 1:12-20
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?
Isaiah 66:3
He who kills an ox is is as if he killed a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is as if he broke a dog's neck; he who offers an offering is as if he offered swine's blood; he who burns incense is as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
Jeremiah 7:21-23
So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
Hosea 6:6-7
For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Acts 10:33
Therefore I immediately sent to you, and you have done well to come. Now therefore we are all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded you by God.
1 Corinthians 11:22
For do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? I do not praise you!
Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
Hebrews 12:28-29
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear,
James 1:19
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
1 Peter 2:1-2
Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,
Genesis 4:3-5
And in the end of days, it happened, Cain brought to Jehovah an offering of the fruit of the ground.
Genesis 28:16-17
And Jacob awakened from his sleep. And he said, Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know.
Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, It is that which Jehovah spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
Joshua 5:15
And the Commander of Jehovah's army said to Joshua, Take your shoe off your foot, for the place on which you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.
1 Samuel 13:12-13
and I said, The Philistines will come down now on me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to Jehovah. And I forced myself and offered a burnt offering.
1 Samuel 15:21-22
But the people took from the spoil, of the flocks and herd, the best of the things devoted to sacrifice to Jehovah your God in Gilgal.
2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to ruin. For he sinned against Jehovah his God, and went into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense on the altar of incense.
Psalm 50:8-18
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; yea, your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
Malachi 1:10-11
Who is even among you who will shut the doors, and you not kindle fire on My altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says Jehovah of Hosts. I will not be pleased with an offering from you.
Acts 17:11
And these were more noble than those of Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily to see if those things were so.