Ecclesiastes 5:7

7 For when dreams increase and cwords grow many, dthere is vanity;1 but2 eGod is the one you must fear.

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Proverbs 10:19
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Ecclesiastes 6:11
The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?

Ecclesiastes 3:14
I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 7:18
It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.

Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 12:13
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.


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ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]