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Ecclesiastes 5:7

For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.

Young's Literal 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

6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that 'it [is] an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

8If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest 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3:14I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.

Ecclesiastes 5:3For the dream hath 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 hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath 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 12:36'And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a 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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