Ecclesiastes 5:3
“For a dreame commeth through the multitude of businesse, and a fooles voyce is knowen by multitude of words.”
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Ecclesiastes 5:3 Context
1Kepe thy foote when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to heare, then to giue the sacrifice of fooles: for they consider not that they doe euill. 2Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to vtter any thing before God: for God is in heauen, and thou vpon earth: therefore let thy words be few. 3For a dreame commeth through the multitude of businesse, and a fooles voyce is knowen by multitude of words. 4When thou vowest a vow vnto God, deferre not to pay it: for he hath no pleasure in fooles; pay that which thou hast vowed. 5Better is it that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vowe and not pay.
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Other Translations for Ecclesiastes 5:3
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice [is known] by multitude of words.
- King James Version
For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
- American Standard Version (1901)
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
- Basic English Bible
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
- Darby Bible
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.
- Webster's Bible
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.
- World English Bible
For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.
- Youngs Literal Bible
(5:2) For a dream cometh through a multitude of business; and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Ecclesiastes 5:3
5:3 A dream - When men are oppressed with business in the day, they dream of it in the night. Is known - It discovers the man to be a foolish, and rash, and inconsiderate man. Of words - Either in prayer, or in vowing, by making many rash vows, of which he speaks ver.#4|, 5, 6, and then returns to the mention of multitude of dreams and many words, ver.#7|, which verse may be a comment upon this, and which makes it probable that both that and this verse are to be understood of vows rather than of prayers.