Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear God.
Literal 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3:14I have known that all that God does is for all time, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God has worked that they fear before Him.
Ecclesiastes 5:3For the dream has come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.
Ecclesiastes 8:9All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; a time that man has ruled over man to his own evil.
Ecclesiastes 12:13The end of the whole matter let us hear: “Fear God, and keep His commands, for this [is] the whole of man.
Matthew 12:36And I say to you that every idle word that men may speak, they will give for it a reckoning 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 →