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Ecclésiaste 5:3

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3 Car, si les songes naissent de la multitude des occupations, la voix de l'insensé se fait entendre dans la multitude des paroles.

Ecclésiaste 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 (ab yk) "ut prodit somnium", Junius & Tremellius; "nam ut venit", Piscator; "quia sicut venit", Mercerus, Ramabachius, so Broughton.
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Ecclésiaste 5:3 In-Context

1 Prends garde à ton pied, lorsque tu entres dans la maison de Dieu; approche-toi pour écouter, plutôt que pour offrir le sacrifice des insensés, car ils ne savent pas qu'ils font mal.
2 Ne te presse pas d'ouvrir la bouche, et que ton coeur ne se hâte pas d'exprimer une parole devant Dieu; car Dieu est au ciel, et toi sur la terre: que tes paroles soient donc peu nombreuses.
3 Car, si les songes naissent de la multitude des occupations, la voix de l'insensé se fait entendre dans la multitude des paroles.
4 Lorsque tu as fait un voeu à Dieu, ne tarde pas à l'accomplir, car il n'aime pas les insensés: accomplis le voeu que tu as fait.
5 Mieux vaut pour toi ne point faire de voeu, que d'en faire un et de ne pas l'accomplir.
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