Ecclesiastes 5:7 Meaning and Explanation
“For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Empty dreams and endless words come to nothing; the one fitting response before God is reverent fear.
What Does Ecclesiastes 5:7 Mean?
The Preacher gathers up his counsel on worship and speech into a single conclusion. Both restless dreams and a flood of words are, in the end, fleeting and insubstantial, like breath that vanishes.
Over against all that emptiness stands a solid command: "fear thou God." This is not terror but awe, the deep respect that orders a whole life around the reality of God. It is the steady center the rest of the book keeps returning to. When everything else proves passing, reverent trust in the living God remains the one thing that holds.
Ecclesiastes 5:7 in the Original Language
yare (יָרֵא), 'fear' -- reverent awe and trust, the proper posture of a creature before God.
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What does Ecclesiastes 5:7 mean?
Empty dreams and endless words come to nothing; the one fitting response before God is reverent fear.