Ecclesiastes 5

NET

6 Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not tell the priest, “It was a mistake!” Why make God angry at you so that he would destroy the work of your hands?


Darby

6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angelD4507, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?


Darby Bible Notes

angel - Or 'messenger.'


KJV

6 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?