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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 5:3 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ec 5:3 |
King James |
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
As much "business," engrossing the mind, gives birth to incoherent "dreams," so many words, uttered inconsiderately in prayer, give birth to and betray "a fool's speech" (Ecc 10:14), [HOLDEN and WEISS]. But Ecc 5:7 implies that the "dream" is not a comparison, but the vain thoughts of the fool (sinner, Psa 73:20), arising from multiplicity of (worldly) "business." His "dream" is that God hears him for his much speaking (Mat 6:7), independently of the frame of mind [English Version and MAURER].
fool's voice--answers to "dream" in the parallel; it comes by the many "words" flowing from the fool's "dream." |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| 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 Ecc 5:4-6, and then returns to the mention of multitude of dreams and many words, Ecc 5:7, 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. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| For a dream cometh - That is, as dreams are generally the effect of the business in which we have been engaged during the day; so a multitude of words evidence the feeble workings of the foolish heart. |
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
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?