Ecclesiastes 5:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For in a multitude of dreams there is futility and worthlessness, and ruin in a flood of words. But [reverently] fear God [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is].

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁷ Remember: When dreams multiply, so do pointless thoughts and excessive speech. Therefore, fear God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ If you see false accusations against the indigent, and violent judgments, and subverted justice in the government, do not be surprised over this situation. For those in high places have others who are higher, and there are still others, more eminent, over these.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

Ecclesiastes 5:7 Cross References

Proverbs 23:17

Let not thine heart envy sinners: But be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long:

Ecclesiastes 12:13

This is the end of the matter; all hath been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of judgement, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

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

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and prolong his days, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.

Matthew 12:36

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement.