Chuándàoshū 5:3

3 Shì wù duō , jiù líng rén zuòmèng , yányǔ duō , jiù xiǎn chū yúmeì .

Chuándàoshū 5:3 Meaning and Commentary

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For a dream cometh through the multitude of business
Or, "for as a dream" ^F17, so Aben Ezra; as that comes through a multiplicity of business in the daytime, in which the mind has been busied, and the body employed; and this brings on dreams in the night season, which are confused and incoherent; sometimes the fancy is employed about one thing, and sometimes another, and all unprofitable and useless, as well as vain and foolish; and a fool's voice [is known] by multitude of words;
either his voice in conversation, for a fool is full of words, and pours out his foolishness in a large profusion of them; or his voice in prayer, being like a man's dream, confused, incoherent, and rambling. The supplement, "is known", may be left out.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (ab yk) "ut prodit somnium", Junius & Tremellius; "nam ut venit", Piscator; "quia sicut venit", Mercerus, Ramabachius, so Broughton.

Chuándàoshū 5:3 In-Context

1 Nǐ dào shén de diàn , yào jǐnshèn jiǎobù . yīnwei jìn qián tīng , shèng guo yúmeì rén xiànjì , ( huò zuò shèng guo xiàn yúmeì rén de zhaì ) tāmen bĕn bù zhīdào suǒ zuò de shì è .

2 Nǐ zaì shén miànqián bùkĕ mào shī kāikǒu , yĕ bùkĕ xīn jí fā yán . yīnwei shén zaì tiān shang , nǐ zaì dì xià , suǒyǐ nǐde yányǔ yào guǎ shǎo .

3 Shì wù duō , jiù líng rén zuòmèng , yányǔ duō , jiù xiǎn chū yúmeì .

4 Nǐ xiàng shén xǔyuàn , chánghuán bùkĕ chíyán . yīn tā bù xǐyuè yúmeì rén . suǒyǐ nǐ xǔ de yuàn yīngdāng chánghuán .

5 Nǐ xǔyuàn bù huán , bù rú bù xǔ .