Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear thou God.
American Standard 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, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 5:3For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool`s voice with 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 wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.
Ecclesiastes 12:13[This is] the end of the matter; all hath been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole [duty] of man.
Matthew 12:36And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof 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 →