Charles Ellicott Commentary Ecclesiastes 5:7

"For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear thou God." — Ecclesiastes 5:7 (ASV)

This verse presents some difficulties of translation arising from textual corruption, but these do not affect the general sense; in which the many words that belong to the dreams and vanities of paganism are contrasted with the fear of the only God.