Ecclesiastes 5:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Suffer 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 thine hands?

Ecclesiastes 5:6 —

Old words in this verse

suffer: — often: allow, permit.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
2 John 1:8
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
James 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Malachi 2:7
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-2
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. …

Topics

Angel (a Spirit)Contracts Covenant Deceit Deception Dedication Depravity of Man False Teachers

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-8)

Four things we are exhorted to in these verses:— I. To be conscientious in paying our vows. 1. A vow is a bond upon the soul (Num. 30:2), by which we solemnly oblige ourselves, not only, in general, to do that which we are already bound to do, but, in some particular instances, to do that to do which we were not under any antecedent obligation, whether it respects honouring God or serving the inte…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. thy flesh--Vow not with “thy mouth” a vow (for example, fasting), which the lusts of the flesh (“body,” Ec 2:3, Margin) may tempt thee to break (Pr 20:25). angel--the “messenger” of God (Job 33:23); minister (Re 1:20); that is, the priest (Mal 2:7) “before” whom a breach of a vow was to be confessed (Le 5:4, 5). We, Christians, in our vows (for example, at baptism, the Lord’s Supper, &c.) vow i…