Ecclesiastes 5:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For a dream comes with much business and painful effort, and a fool's voice with many words.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool’s voice with a multitude of words.

Common English Bible

³ Remember: Dreams come with many cares, and the voice of fools with many words.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ 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.

Ecclesiastes 5:3 Cross References

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.

Job 11:2

“Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be vindicated?

Leviticus 27:2

“Say to the people of Israel, When a man makes a special vow of persons to the Lord at your valuation,