Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 5:3
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Ecclesiastes5:3
3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business , and a fools voice is known by multitude of words .
When mens Minds are distracted and oppressed with too much business in the Day, they dream of it in the Night.
It discovers the Man to be a foolish and rash, and inconsiderate Man.
Either 1. in Prayer. Or, 2. in Vowing, i. e. by making many rash Vows, of which he speaks in v. 4, 5, 6. and then returns to the mention of multitude of dreams and many words, v. 7. which Verse may be a Comment upon this, and which makes it probable that both that and this Verse are to be understood of Vows rather than of Prayers.
Marginal references: Prov. 10. 19.
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