Ecclesiastes 5:2
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.
KJV
Multas curas sequuntur somnia, et in multis sermonibus invenietur stultitia.
Vulgate
ὅτι παραγίνεται ἐνύπνιον ἐν πλήθει πειρασμοῦ, καὶ φωνὴ ἄφρονος ἐν πλήθει λόγων.
LXX
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
ASV
כִּ֛י בָּ֥א הַ/חֲל֖וֹם בְּ/רֹ֣ב עִנְיָ֑ן וְ/ק֥וֹל כְּסִ֖יל בְּ/רֹ֥ב דְּבָרִֽים
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
חֲל֣וֹם
chlvm
noun · 64×
כְּסִ֑יל
ksyl
noun · 69×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
עִנְיַ֣ן
'nyn
noun · 8×
ק֣וֹל
qvl
noun · 503×
רֹ֣ב
rb
noun · 149×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 8:30 — And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
- 1Sam 14:24 — And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the peo
- Eccl 5:3 — For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
- Eccl 5:7 — For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
- Gen 18:27 — And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
- Gen 18:30 — And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
- Gen 18:32 — And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
- Gen 28:20 — And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
- Gen 28:22 — And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
- Isa 55:9 — For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
- Jas 3:2 — For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
- Job 22:12 — Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
- Judg 11:30 — And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
- Judg 21:1 — Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
- Lev 5:4 — Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilt
- Luke 11:2 — And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
- Mark 6:23 — And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
- Matt 6:7 — But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
- Matt 6:7 — But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
- Matt 6:9 — After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
- Matt 15:9 — But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
- Neh 10:28 — And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives,
- Num 30:2 — If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
- Prov 10:19 — In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
- Prov 15:28 — The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
- Prov 20:25 — It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
- Prov 29:20 — Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
- Ps 115:3 — But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.