Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 5:1
A church father on this verse
“Moreover, it is a good thing to use the tongue sparingly, and to keep a calm and rightly balanced heart in the exercise of speech. For it is not right to give utterance in words to things that are foolish and absurd, or to all that occur to the mind; but we ought to know and reflect, that though we are far separated f…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
1Be not hasty with thy mouth, And let not thy heart be swift To utter anything before God; For God is in heaven above, and thou upon earth: Therefore let thy words be few.
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In context
— Ecclesiastes 5:1 —
2For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; And a fool’s voice is with a multitude of words.
3Whenever thou shalt vow a vow to God, Defer not to pay it; For he has no pleasure in fools: Pay thou therefore whatsoever thou shalt have vowed.