Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 5:3-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 5 in context

Scripture Focus

3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

Ecclesiastes 5:3-7

Biblical Context

This passage warns that too much talking and dreaming come from constant busyness. It also urges keeping vows to God and advises that fear of God cures vanity.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the verse as a map of consciousness. The multitude of business and the fool's many words point to a restless state in which the mind is chasing appearances rather than the truth of I AM. When you hear the call to vow, see it not as a contract with some distant deity but as a conscious commitment you make to align your entire being with the divine order within you. If you defer paying, you are fraying the thread of your own reality; you resist the natural consequence of your inner decision. If you vow and fail to pay, you deny your own creation, and the inner angel your life depends on becomes a witness to inconsistency. The line about many dreams is a reminder that the imagination, when ungoverned, crafts divers vanities; fear thou God is the invitation to tether imagination to a single purpose and to live from that premise. Thus the outer world will echo your inner alignment; the more you keep silent where you must and speak with practiced discernment, the more life forms as you intend.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling that the I AM has already kept every vow you make. Before you speak or sign, pause, revise to a single clear purpose, and feel it real that the vow is already fulfilled in you.