Ecclesiastes 5:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Keep thy foot Thy thoughts and affections, by which men go to God, and walk with him. See that your hearts be upright before him, devoted to him, and furnished with those graces essential to the true worship of him, especially with reverence, humility, resignation, meekness, faith, and love. It is a metaphor taken from a person's walking in a very slippery path, in which more than ordinary care is requisite to keep him from falling: when thou goest to the house of God The place of God's solemn and public worship, whether the temple or a synagogue; and be more ready to hear To hearken to, and obey, God's word; than to give the sacrifice of fools Such as foolish and wicked men are wont to offer, who vainly think to please God with their sacrifices, without true piety and obedience. For they consider not that they do evil They are not sensible of the great sinfulness of such thoughts and practices, but, like fools, think they do God good service.