Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 (5:3) When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for He hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou vowest.

JPS_ASV_Byz⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ (5:3) When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for He hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou vowest. ⁵ (5:4) Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. ⁶ (5:5) Suffer not thy mouth to bring thy flesh into guilt, neither say thou before the messenger, that it was an error; wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?