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Ecclesiastes 5:6

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?

KJV

Ubi multa sunt somnia, plurimæ sunt vanitates, et sermones innumeri ; tu vero Deum time.

Vulgate

ὅτι ἐν πλήθει ἐνυπνίων καὶ ματαιοτήτων καὶ λόγων πολλῶν· ὅτι σὺ τὸν θεὸν φοβοῦ.

LXX

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?

ASV

כִּ֣י בְ/רֹ֤ב חֲלֹמוֹת֙ וַ/הֲבָלִ֔ים וּ/דְבָרִ֖ים הַרְבֵּ֑ה כִּ֥י אֶת הָ/אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְרָֽא

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
הַרְבֵּ֥ה
hrbh
verb · 233×
הָֽבֶל
hbl
noun · 73×
חֲל֣וֹם
chlvm
noun · 64×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
רֹ֣ב
rb
noun · 149×
תִּירָ֖א
tyr'
verb · 325×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2John 1:8 — Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
  • Eccl 5:1 — 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.
  • Gen 48:16 — The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
  • Jas 1:26 — If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Mal 2:7 — For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
  • Prov 10:17 — He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
  • Prov 15:28 — The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.