Ecclesiastes 5:6
Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?
Note Or angel
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?
Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
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 thy hands?
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- thy mouth
- Ecclesiastes 5:1, 2; James 1:26; James 3:2
- before
- Or, "before the messenger," {hammalach,} the priest whose business it was to take cognizance of vows and offerings.
- Leviticus 5:4, 5; Genesis 48:16; Hosea 12:4, 5; Malachi 2:7; Malachi 3:1; Acts 7:30–35; 1 Corinthians 11:10; 1 Timothy 5:21; Hebrews 1:14
- it was
- Leviticus 5:4–6; Leviticus 27:9, 10
- destroy
- Haggai 1:9–11; Haggai 2:14–17; 1 Corinthians 3:13–15; 2 John 1:8