Ecclesiastes 5:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 2 Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat lttle or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. [Prov. 20:25; Acts 5:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Common English Bible

⁵ Better not to make a promise than to make a promise without fulfilling it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ You should not use your mouth so as to cause your flesh to sin. And you should not say, in the sight of an Angel, "There is no Providence." For God, being angry at your words, may scatter all the works of your hands.

Ecclesiastes 5:5 Cross References

Proverbs 20:25

Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord weigheth the hearts.

Leviticus 5:4

And of its blood he shall sprinkle the side of the altar, and whatsoever is left, he shall let it drop at the bottom thereof, because it is for sin.

Jonah 2:9

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen nor sheep, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water.

Malachi 2:7

5 Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.

Acts 5:4

2 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.

Deuteronomy 23:21

If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Deuteronomy 23:22

And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,

Judges 11:35

0 That from year to year the daughters of Israel assemble together, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite for four days.