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Revised Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Just as dreams accompany much labor, so also a fool’s voice comes with many words.
Just as dreams accompany much labor, so also a fool’s voice comes with many words.
Hebrew Names Version
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.
King James Version
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
English Standard Version
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
New American Standard Bible
For the dream comes through much effort, and the voice of a fool through many words.
For the dream comes through much effort, and the voice of a fool through many words.
New Century Version
The saying is true: Bad dreams come from too much worrying, and too many words come from foolish people.
The saying is true: Bad dreams come from too much worrying, and too many words come from foolish people.
Amplified Bible
For the dream comes through much effort, and the voice of the fool through many words.
For the dream comes through much effort, and the voice of the fool through many words.
World English Bible
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.
For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.
Legacy Standard Bible
For the dream comes through abundant endeavor and the voice of a fool through abundant words.
For the dream comes through abundant endeavor and the voice of a fool through abundant words.
Berean Standard Bible
As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.
As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.
Contemporary English Version
If you keep thinking about something, you will dream about it. If you talk too much, you will say the wrong thing.
If you keep thinking about something, you will dream about it. If you talk too much, you will say the wrong thing.
Complete Jewish Bible
If you make a vow to God, don't delay in discharging it. For God takes no pleasure in fools, so discharge your vow!
If you make a vow to God, don't delay in discharging it. For God takes no pleasure in fools, so discharge your vow!
Darby Translation
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
Easy-to-Read Version
Bad dreams come from too many worries, and too many words come from the mouth of a fool.
Bad dreams come from too many worries, and too many words come from the mouth of a fool.
George Lamsa Translation
For a dream comes because of the multitude of business; and a fools voice is known by a multitude of words.
For a dream comes because of the multitude of business; and a fools voice is known by a multitude of words.
Good News Translation
The more you worry, the more likely you are to have bad dreams, and the more you talk, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
The more you worry, the more likely you are to have bad dreams, and the more you talk, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
Lexham English Bible
For a dream comes with many cares, and the voice of a fool with many words.
For a dream comes with many cares, and the voice of a fool with many words.
Literal Translation
For the dream comes through the greatness of the task; and the voice of the fool is known by the many words.
For the dream comes through the greatness of the task; and the voice of the fool is known by the many words.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For where moch carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: & where many wordes are, there men maye heare fooles.
For where moch carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: & where many wordes are, there men maye heare fooles.
American Standard Version
For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
Bible in Basic English
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for He hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou vowest.
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for He hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou vowest.
King James Version (1611)
For a dreame commeth through the multitude of businesse, and a fooles voyce is knowen by multitude of words.
For a dreame commeth through the multitude of businesse, and a fooles voyce is knowen by multitude of words.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For where much carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: and where many wordes are, there men may heare fooles.
For where much carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: and where many wordes are, there men may heare fooles.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Whenever thou shalt vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay thou therefore whatsoever thou shalt have vowed.
Whenever thou shalt vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay thou therefore whatsoever thou shalt have vowed.
English Revised Version
For a dream cometh with a multitude of business; and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
For a dream cometh with a multitude of business; and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Dremes suen many bisynessis, and foli schal be foundun in many wordis.
Dremes suen many bisynessis, and foli schal be foundun in many wordis.
Update Bible Version
For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
Webster's Bible Translation
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice [is known] by a multitude of words.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice [is known] by a multitude of words.
New English Translation
Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words.
Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words.
New King James Version
For a dream comes through much activity, And a fool's voice is known by his many words.
For a dream comes through much activity, And a fool's voice is known by his many words.
New Living Translation
Too much activity gives you restless dreams; too many words make you a fool.
Too much activity gives you restless dreams; too many words make you a fool.
New Life Bible
For a dream comes with much work, and the voice of a fool comes with many words.
For a dream comes with much work, and the voice of a fool comes with many words.
New Revised Standard
For dreams come with many cares, and a fool's voice with many words.
For dreams come with many cares, and a fool's voice with many words.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, - and, the voice of a dullard, is with a multitude of words.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, - and, the voice of a dullard, is with a multitude of words.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(5-2) Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
(5-2) Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
Young's Literal Translation
For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.
For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.
THE MESSAGE
Overwork makes for restless sleep. Overtalk shows you up as a fool.
Overwork makes for restless sleep. Overtalk shows you up as a fool.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.
For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.
Contextual Overview
1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few. 3 For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a fool's: Ecclesiastes 10:12-14, Proverbs 10:19, Proverbs 15:2
Reciprocal: Job 13:5 - and it Proverbs 14:23 - but Proverbs 17:28 - General Ecclesiastes 5:2 - for Ecclesiastes 5:7 - in the Ecclesiastes 10:3 - and he Ecclesiastes 10:14 - fool Matthew 6:7 - use James 1:19 - slow to speak
Cross-References
Genesis 4:25
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him."
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him."
Genesis 5:2
Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Genesis 5:14
Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
Genesis 5:16
Ma-hal'alel lived after the birth of Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.
Ma-hal'alel lived after the birth of Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
Job 25:4
How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?
How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Luke 1:35
And the angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
And the angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business,.... Or, "for as a dream" q, so Aben Ezra; as that comes through a multiplicity of business in the daytime, in which the mind has been busied, and the body employed; and this brings on dreams in the night season, which are confused and incoherent; sometimes the fancy is employed about one thing, and sometimes another, and all unprofitable and useless, as well as vain and foolish;
and a fool's voice [is known] by multitude of words; either his voice in conversation, for a fool is full of words, and pours out his foolishness in a large profusion of them; or his voice in prayer, being like a man's dream, confused, incoherent, and rambling. The supplement, "is known", may be left out.
q ×× ×× "ut prodit somnium", Junius Tremellius "nam ut venit", Piscator; "quia sicut venit", Mercerus, Ramabachius, so Broughton.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ecclesiastes 5:3. 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.
