Ecclesiastes 5:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When you make a vow to God,  don’t delay fulfilling it, because he does not delight in fools. Fulfil what you vow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

When you vow a vow or make a pledge to God, do not put off paying it; for God has no pleasure in fools (those who witlessly mock Him). Pay what you vow. [Ps. 50:14; 66:13, 14; 76:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou vowest.

Common English Bible

When you make a promise to God, fulfill it without delay because God has no pleasure in fools. Fulfill what you promise.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And it is much better not to make a vow, than, after a vow, not to fulfill what was promised.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform the things promised.

Ecclesiastes 5:4 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 28:20

Then Jacob made a vow:  ‘If God will be with me and watch over me during this journey I’m making, if he provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear,

Genesis 35:1

God said to Jacob, ‘Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there.  Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.’

Genesis 35:3

We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress.  He has been with me everywhere I have gone.’

Proverbs 20:25

It is a trap for anyone to dedicate something rashly and later to reconsider his vows.

Isaiah 19:21

The Lord will make himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know the Lord on that day. They will offer sacrifices and offerings;  they will make vows to the Lord and fulfil them.

Jonah 2:9

but as for me, I will sacrifice  to you with a voice of thanksgiving. I will fulfil  what I have vowed. Salvation  belongs to the  Lord.

Malachi 1:10

‘I wish one of you would shut the temple doors,  so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar!  I am not pleased with you,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will accept  no offering from your hands.

Numbers 30:2

When a man makes a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to put himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever he has promised.

Matthew 5:33

‘Again, you have heard that it was said to our ancestors, You must not break your oath, but you must keep your oaths to the Lord.   ,

Hebrews 10:6

You did not delight in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings.

Judges 11:35

When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, ‘No! Not my daughter! You have devastated me! You have brought great misery on me.  I have given my word to the Lord and cannot take it back.’