Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
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Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Ne te presse pas d'ouvrir la bouche, et que ton coeur ne se hâte pas d'exprimer une parole devant Dieu; car Dieu est au ciel, et toi sur la terre: que tes paroles soient donc peu nombreuses.
KJV
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 103 (Migne)
nerantur; aliquando vero ex cogitatione accidunt, sicut scriptum est: Multas curas sequuntur somnia (Eccl. V, 2) . Nam saepe quae in die cogitamus, in noctibus recognoscimus. Aliquando autem ex illusione immundorum spirituum oriuntur, dicente Salomone: Multos errare fecerunt somn…
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