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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

6Do not permit your mouth to cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger that it [is] ignorance. Why is God angry because of your voice and has destroyed the work of your hands?

8If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness you see in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones [are] over them.

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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3:14I have known that all that God does is for all time, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God has worked that they fear before Him.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 →

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