Ecclesiastes 5:4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.

Ecclesiastes 5:4

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New International Version (©1984)
When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When you make a vow to God, do not be late in paying it; for He takes no delight in fools. Pay what you vow!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When you make a promise to God, don't be slow to keep it because God doesn't like fools. Keep your promise.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed.

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

Bible in Basic English
When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
When thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

World English Bible
When you vow a vow to God, don't defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

Young's Literal Translation
When thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to complete it, for there is no pleasure in fools; that which thou vowest -- complete.

Geneva Study Bible

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

(c) He speaks of vows which are approved by God's word and serve to his glory.

5:4 In fools - In perfidious persons, who, when they are in distress, make liberal vows, and when the danger is past, break them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. When thou vowest a vow unto God-Hasty words in prayer (Ec 5:2, 3) suggest the subject of hasty vows. A vow should not be hastily made (Jud 11:35; 1Sa 14:24). When made, it must be kept (Ps 76:11), even as God keeps His word to us (Ex 12:41, 51; Jos 21:45).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:4-8 When a person made engagements rashly, he suffered his mouth to cause his flesh to sin. The case supposes a man coming to the priest, and pretending that his vow was made rashly, and that it would be wrong to fulfil it. Such mockery of God would bring the Divine displeasure, which might blast what was thus unduly kept. We are to keep down the fear of man. Set God before thee; then, if thou seest the oppression of the poor, thou wilt not find fault with Divine Providence; nor think the worse of the institution of magistracy, when thou seest the ends of it thus perverted; nor of religion, when thou seest it will not secure men from suffering wrong. But though oppressors may be secure, God will reckon for all.

Numbers 30:2 "If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Psalm 50:14 "Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High;

Psalm 66:13 I shall come into Your house with burnt offerings; I shall pay You my vows,

Psalm 66:14 Which my lips uttered And my mouth spoke when I was in distress.

Psalm 76:11 Make vows to the LORD your God and fulfill them; Let all who are around Him bring gifts to Him who is to be feared. (NASB ©1995)

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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.

vowest Ge 28:20 35:1,3 Nu 30:2 De 23:21-23 Ps 50:14 76:11 119:106 Isa 19:21 Mt 5:33

for Ps 147:10,11 Mal 1:10 Heb 10:6

pay Ps 66:13,14 116:14,16-18 Jon 2:9

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