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Listen and speak carefully

Watch[a] your steps when you go to God’s house. It’s more acceptable to listen than to offer the fools’ sacrifice—they have no idea that they’re acting wrongly. Don’t[b] be quick with your mouth or say anything hastily before God, because God is in heaven, but you are on earth. Therefore, let your words be few.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:1 4:17 in Heb
  2. Ecclesiastes 5:2 5:1 in Heb

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