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Ecclesiastes 5:6

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6Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin, and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that it was a amistake. Why should God be angry on account of your voice and wreak destruction on the work of your hands?

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Cross references

  1. aLev 4:2, 22; Num 15:25

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, “My vow was a mistake.” Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Do not let your mouth bring guilt on you, and do not say in the presence of the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t let your mouth make you sin. And don’t defend yourself by telling the Temple messenger that the promise you made was a mistake. That would make God angry, and he might wipe out everything you have achieved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Do not let your mouth lead your flesh into sin,

and do not tell the messenger that it was a mistake.

Why anger God at your words,

so that he destroys the work of your hands?

KJV 1900King James Version

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?