An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Wondering
12 August 2010, 12:25 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Opinion.
Why does this verse bring to mind the Obama administration?
Ecclesiastes 5:3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
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Your connection with the Obama administration seems apt, OB, but I don’t think that is the actual intent. Here is what Matthew Henry has to say about it:
As confused dreams, frightful and perplexed, and such as disturb the sleep, are an evidence of a hurry of business which fills our head, so many words and hasty ones, used in prayer, are an evidence of folly reigning in the heart, ignorance of and unacquaintedness with both God and ourselves, low thoughts of God, and careless thoughts of our own souls. Even in common conversation a fool is known by the multitude of words; those that know least talk most (Ec 10:11), particularly in devotion; there, no doubt, a prating fool shall fall (Pr 10:8,10), shall fall short of acceptance. Those are fools indeed who think they shall be heard, in prayer, for their much speaking.
Heh. Yeah, I realize he wasn’t the topic when written. Just when I opened my Bible today, that’s what it opened to, and the first thing that popped into my head what the current anti-business pretend POTUS talks an awful lot.