let thy words be few
你到神的殿要謹慎腳步;因為近前聽,勝過愚昧人獻祭(或作:勝過獻愚昧人的祭),他們本不知道所作的是惡。你在神面前不可冒失開口,也不可心急發言;因為神在天上,你在地下,所以你的言語要寡少。事務多,就令人作夢;言語多,就顯出愚昧。
你向神許願,償還不可遲延,因他不喜悅愚昧人,所以你許的願應當償還。你許願不還,不如不許。不可任你的口使肉體犯罪,也不可在祭司(原文是使者)面前說是錯許了。為何使神因你的聲音發怒,敗壞你手所作的呢?多夢和多言,其中多有虛幻,你只要敬畏神。
(傳道書5:1-7)
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. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 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 thine hands? For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
(Ecclesiastes 5:1-7)





