Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.
Darby Translation
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 doeth, it shall be for ever; there is nothing to be added to it, nor anything to be taken from it; and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 5:3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
Ecclesiastes 8:9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.
Ecclesiastes 12:13Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.
Matthew 12:36But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:
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 →