Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Suffer not thy mouth ... - i. e., Do not make rash vows which may hereafter be the cause of evasion and prevarication, and remain unfulfilled.
Before the angel - The Septuagint and some other versions render "before the face of God," meaning a spiritual being representing the presence of God, a minister of divine justice Exodus 23:21, such a one as inflicted judgment upon David II Samuel 24:17. Others, with less probability, understand the angel to be a priest, and refer to Malachi 2:7.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ecclesiastes 5:6:
Leviticus 4:1-2
Job 33:23
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