“Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.”
The admonition that words are few before God, and that the multitude of dreams comes with much talk, suggests that excessive speech distances one from genuine encounter with the divine. The association of dreams with empty speech implies that fantasies and idle talk proliferate while standing before God; the wise person recognizes God's transcendence by restraining words. This verse privileges silence and listening over self-assertion in the presence of the holy.
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