Ecclesiastes 5:7

For in the multitude of dreams, and many words, there are also divers vanities,.... Or as, "in a multitude of dreams, there are many vanities, so also in a multitude of words" (s); as dreams are vain…

For ... vanities - Or, For so it happens through many dreams and vanities and many words.

Four things we are exhorted to in these verses: -

I. To be conscientious in paying our vows.

1. A vow is a bond upon the soul (Num 30:2), by which we solemnly oblige ourselves, not only, in general,…

For in the multitude of dreams The order of the words in the A. V. is not that of the Hebrew, which gives For in the multitude of dreams and vanities and many words, but is adopted by many…