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.
When thou vowest a vow (). Hasty words in prayer (Ecclesiastes 5:2) suggest the subject of hasty vows. A vow should not be hastily made (as Jephthah's and Saul's, ; ). When made, it must be kept (), even as God keeps His word to us (cf. as to Israel ; ; ).
Verse Ecclesiastes 5:4. _WHEN THOU VOWEST A VOW_] When in distress and difficulty, men are apt to promise much to God if he will relieve them; but generally forget the vow when the distress or trouble...
3. EXHORTATIONS ON DIFFERENT VANITIES CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Concerning worship and vows (Ecclesiastes 5:1)_ 2. Concerning extortions (Ecclesiastes 5:8) 3. The vanities of wealth (Eccle
REALITY IN RELIGION. This section deals with worship and vows. Those who go to the house of God (whether Temple or synagogue is not clear) must go reverently and thoughtfully. Keep thy foot recalls th...
VOWEST. VOW. makest. solemn vow. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6). GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. PLEASURE. See note on "purpose", Ecclesiastes 3:1, and App-76....
_When thou vowest a vow unto God_ The words are almost a reproduction of Deuteronomy 23:22-24. They point to a time when vows, such as are here referred to, entered largely into men's personal religio...
DISCOURSE: 832 DUTY OF PAYING OUR VOWS Ecclesiastes 5:4, _When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou hast rowed. Better is it that tho...
FOR HE HATH NO PLEASURE IN FOOLS— For it is the property _of fools_ to have _no_ fixed _will._ Desvoeux. The Hebrew is, _For no will in fools;_ and so the LXX render it....
D. GUIDELINES FOR THE WORK OF WORSHIP Ecclesiastes 5:1-9 1. Watch your step in God's house. Ecclesiastes 5:1 a TEXT 5:1a Ecclesiastes 5:1 a Guard your steps as you go to the house of God, THO
DISHEARTENING OUTLOOK ON LIFE 1-8. Disorders in the religious, in the political world. In the earlier part of this chapter the writer turns from secular to religious matters. H e points out the irrev...
DEFER NOT TO PAY IT] A vow is not essential, but once made it is binding: cp. Deuteronomy 23:21. Vows had an important place in the religion of Israel, as we see from Genesis 28:20; Numbers 6:2.;...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 5 BE AFRAID TO MAKE GOD ANGRY – ECCLESIASTES 5:1-7 V1 Be careful when you go to God...
There is here a clear recognition of the passage in Deuteronomy. (See ref.; comp. Sir. 18:23.) NO PLEASURE IN FOOLS. — Comp. Isaiah 62:4....
_[Ecclesiastes 5:3]_ כַּ אֲשֶׁר֩ תִּדֹּ֨ר נֶ֜דֶר לֵֽ...
SO ALSO A HAPPIER AND MORE EFFECTIVE METHOD OF WORSHIP IS OPEN TO MEN; Ecclesiastes 5:1 The men of affairs are led from the vocations of the Market and the intrigues of the Divan into the House of Go...
PRACTICAL MAXIMS DEDUCED FROM THIS VIEW OF THE BUSINESS LIFE. (b) A noble philosophy this, and pregnant with practical counsels of great value. For if, as we close our study of this Section of the Bo...
SECOND SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of Business Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20 I. IF the true Good is not to be found in the School where Wisdom utters her vo...
The observation of the religious life brings no truer satisfaction. In this brief passage contempt for religion is not expressed, but there is absolutely no joy or satisfaction manifest. The life is w...
When thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast (c) vowed. (c) He speaks of vows which are approved by God's word and serve to his glo...
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. (4) When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 12. The Book of Ecclesiastes is, up to a certain point, the converse of the Book of Proverbs. (see NOTE TO PROVERBS below) It is the experience of a...
WHEN THOU VOWEST A VOW UNTO GOD,.... Or "if thou vowest" r, as the Vulgate Latin version; for vows are free and indifferent things, which persons may make or not; there is no precept for them in the w...
_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._ Ver. 4. _When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it._] _See Trapp...
_When thou vowest a vow unto God_ When thou obligest thyself by a solemn promise to honour God, and serve the interest of his kingdom; or to do good to any of thy fellow-creatures in some particular w...
PROPER WORSHIP OF GOD...
When thou vowest a vow unto God, such vows among the Jews being included in the precepts of their religion, Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 23:21, DEFER NOT TO PAY IT, this admonition being directed against...
"WHEN YOU MAKE. VOW TO GOD, DO NOT BE LATE IN PAYING IT, FOR HE TAKES NO DELIGHT IN FOOLS. PAY WHAT YOU VOW!"DO NOT BE LATE IN PAYING IT" -God expects us to keep our word (Deut. Ecclesiastes 23:21-23)...
4-8 When a person made engagements rashly, he suffered his mouth to cause his flesh to sin. The case supposes a man coming to the priest, and pretending that his vow was made rashly, and that it woul...
A VOW; which is a solemn promise, whereby a man binds himself to do something which is in his power to do. DEFER NOT TO PAY IT; perform it whilst the sense of thine obligation is fresh and strong upon...
Ecclesiastes 5:4 make H5087 (H8799) vow H5088 God H430 delay H309 (H8762) pay H7999 (H8763) pleasure...
CHAPTER 5 TRUE RELIGION AND WORSHIP. THE PROBLEM OF RICHES. THE GOOD LIFE. The Importance of True Worship (Ecclesiastes 5:1). This chapter now begins with one of those periods in The Preacher's musin...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws which we had no voice in making; that we often lie at th...
Ecclesiastes 4:1 I. In the fourth chapter Koheleth comes to the conclusion that life is essentially and irretrievably wretched wretched not because (as he had formerly thought) it would so soon be ove...
CONTENTS: Warnings against a vain religion. The vanity and vexation attending the possession of wealth. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: We should address ourselves to the worship of God with a...
Ecclesiastes 5:1. _Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God._ Avoid wandering thoughts, and be wholly absorbed in devotion. Do not hear the words of prayer only, but desire the blessings soug...
_When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it._ OF REMEMBERING AND KEEPING OUR VOWS One of the greatest inconveniences to which men are exposed in the various transactions of life, one of the...
_Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God._ REVERENCE AND FIDELITY This passage is a series of cautions against irreverence and insincerity in worship, against discouragement because of pol...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:1 Fear God, the Holy and Righteous One. In this section, the encouragement to “fear God” is motivated by his holy and righteous character (compare note on...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:4 People should keep their promises, or vows, to God. By taking a VOW, a worshiper would promise to perform a specific act if God would respond favorably to a parti...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 5:6. BEFORE THE ANGEL] The representative of God in the Temple, _i.e_., the priest. Or it may be taken literally, as expressing the early belief of mankind that angels ar...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 5:1 Section 6. Man's outward and secular life being unable to secure happiness and satisfaction, can these be found in _popular religion?_ Religious exercises need the observa...
Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they do not consider the evil that they do (Ecclesiastes 5:1). When you go into the...
Deuteronomy 23:21; Genesis 28:20; Genesis 35:1; Genesis 35:3; H
In fools — In perfidious persons, who, when they are in distress, make liberal vows, and when the danger is past, break them....