Ecclesiastes 5:3
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
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Gill's Exposition
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,…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business The one psychological fact is meant to illustrate the other. The mind that has lost the power to re-collect itself, haunted and harassed by the…
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