"For in the multitude of dreams and many words {there are} also {divers} vanities: but fear thou God." — Ecclesiastes 5:7

Ecclesiastes 5:7 · KJV

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

— Ecclesiastes 5:7

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it {was} an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

Verse 8

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for {he that is} higher than the highest regardeth; and {there be} higher than they. {at the... Heb. at the will, or, purpose}

Ecclesiastes 5 — Context

Better {is it} that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it {was} an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

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

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king {himself} is served by the field.

Cross References

Matthew 12:36

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

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this {is} the whole {duty} of man. {Let...: or, The end of the matter, even all that hath been heard, is}

Ecclesiastes 8:12

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

Proverbs 23:17

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but {be thou} in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

Isaiah 50:10-11

Who {is} among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh {in} darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

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

Ecclesiastes 7:18

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

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 doeth {it}, that {men} should fear before him.