Ecclesiastes 5:3
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
American King James Version (AKJV)
For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
American Standard Version (ASV)
For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
Webster's Revision
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.
World English Bible
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.
English Revised Version (ERV)
For a dream cometh with a multitude of business; and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
Clarke's Ecclesiastes 5:3 Bible Commentary
For a dream cometh - That is, as dreams are generally the effect of the business in which we have been engaged during the day; so a multitude of words evidence the feeble workings of the foolish heart.
Wesley's Ecclesiastes 5:3 Bible Commentary
5:3 A dream - When men are oppressed with business in the day, they dream of it in the night. Is known - It discovers the man to be a foolish, and rash, and inconsiderate man. Of words - Either in prayer, or in vowing, by making many rash vows, of which he speaks ver. 4 , 5, 6, and then returns to the mention of multitude of dreams and many words, ver. 7 , which verse may be a comment upon this, and which makes it probable that both that and this verse are to be understood of vows rather than of prayers.