Ecclesiastes 5:5
“Better is it that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vowe and not pay.”
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Ecclesiastes 5:5 Context
3For a dreame commeth through the multitude of businesse, and a fooles voyce is knowen by multitude of words. 4When thou vowest a vow vnto God, deferre not to pay it: for he hath no pleasure in fooles; pay that which thou hast vowed. 5Better is it that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vowe and not pay. 6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sinne, neither say thou before the Angel, that it was an errour: wherefore should God be angrie at thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands? 7For in the multitude of dreames and many words, there are also diuers vanities: but feare thou God.
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Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
- King James Version
It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
- American Standard Version (1901)
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
- Basic English Bible
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
- Darby Bible
Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.
- Webster's Bible
It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
- World English Bible
Better that thou do not vow, than that thou dost vow and dost not complete.
- Youngs Literal Bible
(5:4) Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible