This is a sacrifice of empty words. No defective sacrifice offered to God was acceptable, and vain words are wholly valueless. The Scripture admonishes us,
"Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools... Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. When you vow a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for He has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed." (Ecclesiastes 5:1-4)
A fool vows that which he does not pay; he promises what he is not able to perform, and with this he satisfies his conscience. But God can be satisfied with nothing but reality.--Present Truth, February 28, 1895--Ecclesiastes 5:1-2
E.J. Waggoner