“For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.”
Ecclesiastes 5:3 (KJV) |
Ecclesiastes 5:3
From Ecclesiastes 5, in the Book of Ecclesiastes (Old Testament).
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Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.