7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
7 Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God.
7 For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity;
7 But against all illusion and fantasy and empty talk There's always this rock foundation: Fear God!
7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there is also vanity. But fear God.
7 Talk is cheap, like daydreams and other useless activities. Fear God instead.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ecclesiastes 5:7
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 5:4-8
(Read Ecclesiastes 5:4-8)
When a person made engagements rashly, he suffered his mouth to cause his flesh to sin. The case supposes a man coming to the priest, and pretending that his vow was made rashly, and that it would be wrong to fulfil it. Such mockery of God would bring the Divine displeasure, which might blast what was thus unduly kept. We are to keep down the fear of man. Set God before thee; then, if thou seest the oppression of the poor, thou wilt not find fault with Divine Providence; nor think the worse of the institution of magistracy, when thou seest the ends of it thus perverted; nor of religion, when thou seest it will not secure men from suffering wrong. But though oppressors may be secure, God will reckon for all.