Ecclesiastes 5:1
Christian Standard Bible
Caution in God’s Presence
5 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Better to approach in obedience than to offer the sacrifice as fools do,(A) for they ignorantly do wrong.
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Ecclesiastes 5:1
New International Version
Fulfill Your Vow to God
5 [a]Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 5:1 In Hebrew texts 5:1 is numbered 4:17, and 5:2-20 is numbered 5:1-19.
Jeremiah 4:22
Christian Standard Bible
22 “For my people are fools;
they do not know me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.(A)
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”(B)
Hosea 5:4
Christian Standard Bible
4 Their actions do not allow them
to return to their God,(A)
for a spirit of promiscuity is among them,(B)
and they do not know the Lord.(C)
Hosea 5:4
New International Version
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