Ecclesiastes 5:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ For a dream comes through the greatness of the task, and a fool’s voice is known by his 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

Job 11:2

“Should a multitude of words go unanswered? And should a man of lips be declared right?

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, Transgression is not absent, But he who restrains his lips is wise.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise makes knowledge good, But the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

Leviticus 27:2

“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When a man separates a vow, by your evaluation of lives unto יהוה,