Ecclesiastes 5:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:2 : 2 ¶ The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 ¶ In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise.
  • Job 11:2 : 2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
  • Eccl 10:12-14 : 12 ¶ The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth [is] foolishness: and the end of his talk [is] mischievous madness. 14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

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    6Suffer 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?

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

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    1¶ Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

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    12¶ The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

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    19¶ In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise.

  • Prov 29:20
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    20¶ Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.

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    5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

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    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

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