25It 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 trapמוֹקֵ֣שׁH4170Noun - masculine singular constructfor a manאָ֭דָםH120Noun - masculine singularto dedicateקֹ֑דֶשׁH6944Noun - masculine singularsomething rashlyיָ֣לַעH3216Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singularonly laterוְאַחַ֖רH310Conjunctive waw | Adverbto reconsiderלְבַקֵּֽר׃H1239Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive constructhis vowsנְדָרִ֣יםH5088Noun - masculine plural