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Ecclesiastes 5:3

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Ecclesiastes 5:3

Verse 3 of 20

Scripture focus

For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice [is known] by multitude of words.

Ecclesiastes 5:3 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ecclesiastes 5:3

Theological / Devotional

Dream. Heb. chalom, a word used of the whole range of dreams, including the dreams of both true and false prophets. The reference here may be to the confused state of mind of the worldly man, entrapped in a multiplicity of cares, but not experiencing peace in God.

Is known. These words are not in the Hebrew, and are best omitted. The meaning is that, as dreams testify to overwork and nervous strain, so an excess of words marks as a fool the one who speaks them.

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