Ecclesiastes 5:3

New American Bible - revised edition

When you make a vow to God, delay not its fulfillment. For God has no pleasure in fools; fulfill what you have vowed.

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Should not many words be answered, or must the garrulous man necessarily be right?

Where words are many, sin is not wanting; but those who restrain their lips do well.

The tongue of the wise pours out knowledge, but the mouth of fools spews folly.

Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When anyone makes a vow to the Lord with respect to the value of a human being,