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Ecclesiastes 5:1–7

Ecclesiastes 5:1–73 matched frames

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 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.
A' 4-5 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. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
- B 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.
- B' 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?
  - C 3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
  - C' 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

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