7For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.


In Context

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 inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

7 For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.

8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

9 Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king himself is dependent upon the field.

Ecclesiastes 5:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:7For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:7Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore stand in awe of God.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:7Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:7For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear thou God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:7For thus it cometh to pass through the multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear thou God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:7For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:7For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear you God.