Ecclesiastes 5:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.

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  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked `is' an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright `is' His delight.
  • Exod 3:5 : 5 And He saith, `Come not near hither: cast thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place on which thou art standing is holy ground.'
  • Josh 5:15 : 15 And the Prince of Jehovah's host saith unto Joshua, `Cast off thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place on which thou art standing is holy;' and Joshua doth so;
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked `is' abomination, Much more when in wickedness he bringeth it.
  • Isa 1:12-20 : 12 When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts? 13 Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense -- an abomination it `is' to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity -- and a restraint! 14 Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing. 15 And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full. 16 Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good. 17 Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive `for' the widow. 18 Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be! 19 If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume, 20 And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, `By' the sword ye are consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 Whoso slaughtereth the ox smiteth a man, Whoso sacrificeth the lamb beheadeth a dog, Whoso is bringing up a present -- The blood of a sow, Whoso is making mention of frankincense, Is blessing iniquity. Yea, they have fixed on their own ways, And in their abominations their soul hath delighted.
  • Jer 7:21-23 : 21 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Your burnt-offerings add to your sacrifices, And eat ye flesh. 22 For I did not speak with your fathers, Nor did I command them in the day of My bringing them out of the land of Egypt, Concerning the matters of burnt-offering and sacrifice, 23 But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye -- ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.
  • Hos 6:6-7 : 6 For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings. 7 And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.
  • Heb 12:28-29 : 28 wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear; 29 for also our God `is' a consuming fire.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
  • 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, 2 as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
  • Ps 89:7 : 7 God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him.
  • Mal 1:10-11 : 10 Who `is' even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand. 11 For, from the rising of the sun to its going in, Great `is' My name among nations, And in every place perfume is brought nigh to My name, and a pure present, For great `is' My name among nations, Said Jehovah of Hosts.
  • Acts 10:33 : 33 at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.'
  • 1 Cor 11:22 : 22 why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!
  • Heb 10:26 : 26 For we -- willfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth -- no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,
  • 1 Sam 15:21-22 : 21 and the people taketh of the spoil of the flock and herd, the first part of the devoted thing, for sacrifice to Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.' 22 And Samuel saith, `Hath Jehovah had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as `in' hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams;
  • 2 Chr 26:16 : 16 And at his being strong his heart hath been high unto destruction, and he trespasseth against Jehovah his God, and goeth in unto the temple of Jehovah to make perfume upon the altar of perfume.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings `Are' before Me continually. 9 I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats. 10 For Mine `is' every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen. 11 I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field `is' with Me. 12 If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine `is' the world and its fulness. 13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats? 14 Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows. 15 And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me. 16 And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth? 17 Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee. 18 If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers `is' thy portion.
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 And Moses saith unto Aaron, `It `is' that which Jehovah hath spoken, saying, By those drawing near to Me I am sanctified, and in the face of all the people I am honoured;' and Aaron is silent.
  • Gen 4:3-5 : 3 And it cometh to pass at the end of days that Cain bringeth from the fruit of the ground a present to Jehovah; 4 and Abel, he hath brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, even from their fat ones; and Jehovah looketh unto Abel and unto his present, 5 and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.
  • Gen 28:16-17 : 16 And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;' 17 and he feareth, and saith, `How fearful `is' this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.'
  • 1 Sam 13:12-13 : 12 and I say, Now do the Philistines come down unto me to Gilgal, and the face of Jehovah I have not appeased; and I force myself, and cause the burnt-offering to ascend.' 13 And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Thou hast been foolish; thou hast not kept the command of Jehovah thy God, which He commanded thee, for now had Jehovah established thy kingdom over Israel unto the age;

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    2Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few.

    3For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

    4When thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to complete it, for there is no pleasure in fools; that which thou vowest -- complete.

    5Better that thou do not vow, than that thou dost vow and dost not complete.

    6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that `it `is' an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

    7For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.

  • Prov 19:1-3
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    1Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse `in' his lips, who `is' a fool.

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  • Eccl 7:4-5
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    4The heart of the wise `is' in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.

    5Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than `for' a man to hear a song of fools,

  • Prov 1:15-16
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    15My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

    16For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

  • Eph 5:15
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    15See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

  • Prov 8:5
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    5Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,

  • Job 12:5
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    5A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

  • Prov 25:17
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    17Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house, Lest he be satiated `with' thee, and have hated thee.

  • Prov 5:1
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    1My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him -- even thou.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • Prov 4:26-27
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    26Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways `are' established.

    27Incline not `to' the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!

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    9In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.

  • Eccl 7:17
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    17Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?

  • Prov 15:5
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    5A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

  • Ps 4:5
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    5Sacrifice ye sacrifices of righteousness, And trust ye unto Jehovah.

  • Prov 25:8
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    8Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

  • Prov 5:7-9
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    7And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

    8Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

    9Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

  • Prov 14:7-8
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    7Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

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  • Prov 14:15
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    15The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.

  • Prov 4:14-15
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    14Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

    15Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

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    13Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

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    15The way of a fool `is' right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel `is' wise.

  • Eccl 7:21
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    21Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.

  • Eccl 7:9
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    9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

  • Deut 12:13
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    13`Take heed to thee, lest thou cause thy burnt-offerings to ascend in any place which thou seest,

  • Ps 5:7
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    7And I, in the abundance of Thy kindness, I enter Thy house, I bow myself toward Thy holy temple in Thy fear.

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    2I pray thee, the commandment of a king keep, even for the sake of the oath of God.

  • Prov 4:20
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    20My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,

  • Exod 5:17
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    17And he saith, `Remiss -- ye are remiss, therefore ye are saying, Let us go, let us sacrifice to Jehovah;

  • Prov 3:7
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    7Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.

  • Prov 9:6
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    6Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

  • Isa 1:12
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    12When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts?

  • Prov 22:17
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    17Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge,

  • Prov 25:6
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    6Honour not thyself before a king, And in the place of the great stand not.