ECC 5:7 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=minor/spelling Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
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BrLXX (ECC 5:6) Ὅτι ἐν πλήθει ἐνυπνίων καὶ ματαιοτήτων καὶ λόγων πολλῶν, ὅτι σὺ τὸν Θεὸν φοβοῦ.
(Hoti en plaʸthei enupniōn kai mataiotaʸtōn kai logōn pollōn, hoti su ton Theon fobou.)

BrTr (ECC 5:6) For there is evil in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear thou God.

ULT For in many dreams and vaporous things and many words—
⇔ just fear God.

UST This is the point: While everyone else is chasing elusive, secret messages from the gods, offering the prolific, manipulative prayers of foolish people, or doing whatever vapid things people do in God’s presence, you ought to live your life fearfully remembering that God is God, and you are not!

BSB & MSB For as many dreams bring futility, so do many words. Therefore, fear God.

OEB No OEB ECC 5:7 book available

WEBBE & WMBB For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.

NET Just as there is futility in many dreams,
⇔ so also in many words.
⇔ Therefore, fear God!

LSV For in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear God.

FBV There are certainly many dreams, questions of meaning, and lots of different ideas, but you are to follow God.

T4T Promising to do something and not doing it is like [SIM] a dream that has no value; instead, revere God by doing what you promised him that you would do.

LEB • For with many dreams come vanities and numerous words.
• Therefore, fear God!

BBE Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

Moff [[for many dreams and words mean many a vain folly]].

JPS (ECC 5:6) (5-5) Suffer not thy mouth to bring thy flesh into guilt, neither say thou before the messenger, that it was an error; wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

ASV For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear thou God.

DRA (ECC 5:6) Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.

YLT For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.

Drby For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear [fn]God.

5.7 Elohim

RV For thus it cometh to pass through the multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear thou God.
(For thus it cometh/comes to pass through the multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear thou/you God.)

SLT For in the multitude of dreams, and vanities, and many words: but fear thou God.

Wbstr For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

KJB-1769 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
(For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also diverse/various vanities: but fear thou/you God.)

KJB-1611 For in the multitude of dreames and many words, there are also diuers vanities: but feare thou God.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps And why? wheras are many dreames and many wordes, there are also diuers vanities: but loke that thou feare God.
(And why? whereas are many dreams and many words, there are also diverse/various vanities: but look that thou/you fear God.)

Gnva If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.
(If in a country thou/you seest/see the oppression of the poor, and the defrauding of judgement and justice, be not astonished at the matter: for he that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.)

Cvdl And why? where as are many dreames & many wordes, there are also dyuerse vanities: but loke yt thou feare God.
(And why? where as are many dreams and many words, there are also diverse/various vanities: but look it thou/you fear God.)

Wycl (ECC 5:6) Where ben many dremes, ben ful many vanytees, and wordis with out noumbre; but drede thou God.
(Where been many dreams, been full many vanities, and words with out number; but dread thou/you God.)

Luth (ECC 5:6) Wo viel Träume sind, da ist Eitelkeit und viel Worte; aber fürchte du GOtt!
(Where many dreams are, there is vanity and many words; but fear(v) you(sg) God!)

ClVg (ECC 5:6) Ubi multa sunt somnia, plurimæ sunt vanitates, et sermones innumeri; tu vero Deum time.][fn]
(Where fine are dreams, many are vanities, and conversations countless; you(sg) indeed/however God time.])

5.6 Ubi multa sunt. Quasi, Ne dederis os tuum, etc., quia hæc vita est quasi somnia, et multa videntur vera, quæ sunt falsa; sic et excusatio tua.

5.6 Where fine are. As_if, Don’t you_give mouth your(sg), etc., because these_things life it_is as_if dreams, and fine they_seem true, which are false; so and excuse your.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וַ⁠הֲבָלִ֔ים

and,futilities

Here Solomon is speaking as if futile activities were vaporous things. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [and futile things]

Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

כִּ֣י בְ⁠רֹ֤ב חֲלֹמוֹת֙ וַ⁠הֲבָלִ֔ים וּ⁠דְבָרִ֖ים הַרְבֵּ֑ה כִּ֥י אֶת הָ⁠אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְרָֽא

that/for/because/then/when in,abundance_of dreams and,futilities and=words/messages many that/for/because/then/when DOM the=ʼElohīm fear

If the connection between this statement and the previous one is not clear, you may want to use a different connecting word to show how this statement relates to what comes before it. Solomon breaks off the opening clause to give the main instruction. Alternate translation: [Although there are many dreams and vaporous things and many words, just fear God]

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