Ecclesiastes 5:3
“For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.”
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.
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.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
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.
Cross-References
“In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.”
“The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.”
“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.”
“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.”
“In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.”