Pengkhotbah 5:7

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(5-6) Karena sebagaimana mimpi banyak, demikian juga perkataan sia-sia banyak. Tetapi takutlah akan Allah.

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(5-6) Karena sebagaimana mimpi banyak, demikian juga perkataan sia-sia banyak. Tetapi takutlah akan Allah.

Contextual Overview

⁴ If thou make a vowe vnto God, be not slacke to perfourme it: As for foolish vowes he hath no pleasure in them: yf thou promise any thyng, pay it. ⁵ For better is it that thou make no vowe, then that thou shouldest promise and not pay. ⁶ Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy fleshe for to sinne, neither say thou before the angell that it is thy ignoraunce: for then God wyll be angry at thy voyce, and destroy all the worke of thyne handes. ⁷ And why? wheras are many dreames and many wordes, there are also diuers vanities: but loke that thou feare God. ⁸ If thou seest the poore to be oppressed, and wrongfully dealt withall, so that equitie and right of the lawe is wrested in the lande, maruayle not thou at such a thyng: for he that is higher then the hyghest regardeth, and there be hygher then they.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the: Ecclesiastes 5:3, Matthew 12:36

but: Ecclesiastes 7:18, Ecclesiastes 8:12, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Proverbs 23:17, Isaiah 50:10, Isaiah 50:11

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 5:2 - for Ecclesiastes 6:11 - General Matthew 6:7 - use Matthew 10:28 - him Colossians 3:22 - fearing

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 things, or there are abundance of vain things that come into the mind in dreams; so vain and idle are the many excuses which are made for the non-performance of vows; or there are many vain things which are uttered in making of them, or in long prayers to God; or in discourses concerning him; to all which is opposed the fear of God;

but fear thou God; give no heed to dreams, nor to the many words of men, which are vain and foolish; but keep close to the word of God, and worship him internally and externally, in spirit and in truth; for herein lies the sum and substance of religion; see Ecclesiastes 12:13; The Targum is,

"for in the multitude of the dreams of the false prophets believe not, nor in the vanities of the authors of enchantments, and the many speeches of ungodly men; but serve the wise and just, and of them seek doctrine, and fear before the Lord;''

see Jeremiah 23:28;

s So Luther, Broughton, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 5:7. In - dreams - are - divers vanities; but fear thou God. — If, by the disturbed state of thy mind during the day, or by Satanic influence, thou dream of evil, do not give way to any unreasonable fears, or gloomy forebodings, of any coming mischief: - FEAR GOD. Fear neither the dream nor its interpretation; God, will take care of and protect thee. Most certainly, he that fears God need fear nothing else. Well may an upright soul say to Satan himself, I fear God; and because I fear him, l do not fear thee.