Ecclesiastes 5:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
A dream comes when there are many cares, and many words mark the speech of a fool.

New Living Translation
Too much activity gives you restless dreams; too many words make you a fool.

English Standard Version
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many words.

Berean Study Bible
As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.

New American Standard Bible
For the dream comes through much effort, and the voice of a fool through many words.

NASB 1995
For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.

NASB 1977
For the dream comes through much effort, and the voice of a fool through many words.

Amplified Bible
For the dream comes through much effort, and the voice of the fool through many words.

Christian Standard Bible
Just as dreams accompany much labor, so also a fool’s voice comes with many words.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For dreams result from much work and a fool's voice from many words.

Contemporary English Version
If you keep thinking about something, you will dream about it. If you talk too much, you will say the wrong thing.

Good News Translation
The more you worry, the more likely you are to have bad dreams, and the more you talk, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Daydreaming comes when there are too many worries. Careless speaking comes when there are too many words.

International Standard Version
Too many worries lead to nightmares, and a fool is known from talking too much.

NET Bible
Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

New King James Version
For a dream comes through much activity, And a fool’s voice is known by his many words.

King James 2000 Bible
For a dream comes through much business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

New Heart English Bible
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.

World English Bible
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.

American King James Version
For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

American Standard Version
For a dream cometh with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.

A Faithful Version
For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by the multitude of words.

Darby Bible Translation
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.

English Revised Version
For a dream cometh with a multitude of business; and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.

Webster's Bible Translation
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
(5:2) For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(5:2) For where much carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: and where many wordes are, there men may heare fooles.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For where moch carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: & where many wordes are, there men maye heare fooles.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For the dream has come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

Young's Literal Translation
For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

Smith's Literal Translation
For the dream came in the multitude of labor; and the voice of the foolish one in the multitude of words.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Dreams follow many worries, and in many words foolishness will be found.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because a dream comes in a multitude of business, and the voice of a fool in a multitude of words

Lamsa Bible
For a dream comes because of the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For a dream cometh through a multitude of business; And a fool's voice through a multitude of words.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; and a fool's voice is with a multitude of words.
















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