Ecclesiastes 5:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

Ecclesiastes 5:3 —

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Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Ecclesiastes 10:12-14
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. …
Job 11:2
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

Solomon’s design, in driving us off from the world, by showing us its vanity, is to drive us to God and to our duty, that we may not walk in the way of the world, but by religious rules, nor depend upon the wealth of the world, but on religious advantages; and therefore, I. He here sends us to the house of God, to the place of public worship, to the temple, which he himself had built at a vast exp…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. As much “business,” engrossing the mind, gives birth to incoherent “dreams,” so many words, uttered inconsiderately in prayer, give birth to and betray “a fool’s speech” (Ec 10:14), [Holden and Weiss]. But Ec 5:7 implies that the “dream” is not a comparison, but the vain thoughts of the fool (sinner, Psa 73:20), arising from multiplicity of (worldly) “business.” His “dream” is that God hears hi…