25 It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly, only later to reconsider his vows.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:25
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 25
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It is a trap מוֹקֵ֣שׁ H4170 Noun - masculine singular construct for a man אָ֭דָם H120 Noun - masculine singular to dedicate קֹ֑דֶשׁ H6944 Noun - masculine singular something rashly יָ֣לַע H3216 Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular only later וְאַחַ֖ר H310 Conjunctive waw | Adverb to reconsider לְבַקֵּֽר׃ H1239 Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct his vows נְדָרִ֣ים H5088 Noun - masculine plural