Ecclesiastes 5:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Never be rash with your mouth nor let your heart be quick to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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.

Common English Bible

² Don’t be quick with your mouth or say anything hastily before God, because God is in heaven, but you are on earth. Therefore, let your words be few.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Dreams follow many worries, and in many words foolishness will be found.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.

Ecclesiastes 5:2 Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 18:30

Then he said, “Oh, do not let my lord be angry if I speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.”

Genesis 18:32

Then he said, “Oh, do not let my lord be angry if I speak just once more. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”

Genesis 28:20

Then Jacob made 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 clothing to wear,

Genesis 28:22

and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will surely give one-tenth to you.”

Psalm 115:3

Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but the prudent are restrained in speech.

Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare for one to say rashly, “It is holy,” and begin to reflect only after making a vow.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

Words spoken by the wise bring them favor, but the lips of fools consume them.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The words of their mouths begin in foolishness, and their talk ends in wicked madness,

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For dreams come with many cares, and a fool’s voice with many words.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

With many dreams come vanities and a multitude of words, but fear God.

Isaiah 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.

Leviticus 5:4

Or when any of you utter aloud a rash oath for a bad or a good purpose, whatever people utter in an oath and are unaware of it, when you come to know it, you shall in any of these be guilty.

Matthew 6:7

“When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.

Matthew 6:9

“Pray, then, in this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be revered as holy.

Mark 6:23

And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, even half of my kingdom.”

James 3:2

For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.

Judges 11:30

And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand,