Ecclesiastes 5:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ For a dream cometh with a multitude of business; and a fool's voice with a multitude of 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ 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.

Ecclesiastes 5:3 Cross References

Job 11:2

Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

Proverbs 10:19

In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression: But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise uttereth knowledge aright: But the mouth of fools poureth out folly.

Leviticus 27:2

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall accomplish a vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.