Sinai LogoSinai

Ecclesiastes 5:6

World English Bible

Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

Read all of Ecclesiastes 5Open in the Sinai app

Ecclesiastes 5:6 in other translations

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

Ecclesiastes 5:6 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 5:6 in context

  1. 4When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
  2. 5It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
  3. 6Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
  4. 7For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
  5. 8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.