Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words. But fear thou God.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
In Context
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:14I know that, whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. And God has done it that men should fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 5:3For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
Ecclesiastes 8:9All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. [There is] a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
Ecclesiastes 12:13[This is] the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.
Matthew 12:36But I say to you, that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they will render account about it in the day of judgment.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:5-9
The Obligation of a Vow. 4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. 5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.… Read the whole commentary →