Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
World English Bible Updated
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 added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 5:3For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
Ecclesiastes 8:9All this I have seen, and applied my mind 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 12:13This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Matthew 12:36I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of 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 →