“Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and should one full of talk be vindicated?
Ecclesiastes 5:3 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional For dreams come with many cares, and a fool's voice with many words. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For a dream comes with much business and painful effort, and a fool's voice with many words. American Standard Version (1901) For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool’s voice with a multitude of words. Common English Bible Remember: Dreams come with many cares, and the voice of fools with many words. Catholic Public Domain Version If you have vowed anything to God, you should not delay to repay it. And whatever you have vowed, render it. But an unfaithful and foolish promise displeases him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it. |
“Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and should one full of talk be vindicated?
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but the prudent are restrained in speech.
The tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When a person makes an explicit vow to the Lord concerning the equivalent for a human being,