Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 5:2
A church father on this verse
“The passage in Ecclesiastes "Be not in haste to utter speech before God, because God is in heaven above and you on earth below" is intended to show the gap which separates those who are in the "body of humiliation" from him who is with the angels exalted by the help of the Word and from the holy powers with Christ him…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; And a fool’s voice is with a multitude of words.
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In context
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.
— Ecclesiastes 5:2 —
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.
4It is better that thou shouldest not vow, Than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.