Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 - Listen To God Rather Than Uttering Rash Vows

¹ Watch thy feet when thou goest to the house of God and draw near with more willingness to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know how to do what God wants. ² Do not be rash with thy mouth and do not let thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God, for God is in heaven and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few. ³ For out of much preoccupation comes the dream, and the voice of the fool out of a multitude of words. ⁴ When thou dost vow a vow unto God, do not defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou hast vowed. ⁵ It is better that thou should not vow than that thou should vow and not pay. ⁶ Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was ignorance. Why should thou cause God to be angry because of thy voice and destroy the work of thine hands? ⁷ Because dreams abound, and vanities and the words are many, but fear thou God.