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The Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 5, Verse 6

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5
Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
King James Version
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?
American Standard Version
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?
New English Translation
Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not tell the priest,β€œIt was a mistake!” Why make God angry at you so that he would destroy the work of your hands?”
World English Bible
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?
7
For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.
8
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.
9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.
10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity.
11
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good [is there] to the owners thereof, saving the beholding [of them] with their eyes?
12
The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13
There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
14
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.
15
As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
16
And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?