Ecclesiastes 5:5 It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.

Ecclesiastes 5:5

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New International Version (©1984)
It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
It is better to say nothing than to make a promise and not keep it.

English Standard Version (©2001)
It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
It is better not to make a promise than to make one and not keep it.

King James Bible
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

American King James Version
Better is it that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

American Standard Version
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Bible in Basic English
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

English Revised Version
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Webster's Bible Translation
Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.

World English Bible
It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

Young's Literal Translation
Better that thou do not vow, than that thou dost vow and dost not complete.

Geneva Study Bible

Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. (De 23:21, 23).

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.

Proverbs 20:25 It is a trap for a man to say rashly, "It is holy!" And after the vows to make inquiry.

Acts 5:4 "While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God." (NASB ©1995)

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Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

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