“For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.”
The acknowledgment that in many dreams and many words, vanity is evident, and one should fear God, returns to the book's central motif while indicating that fear of God represents the appropriate response to vanity and meaninglessness. The piling up of dreams and words serves no purpose; yet in the presence of God, this futility becomes something that generates awe rather than despair. This verse suggests that recognition of vanity, properly understood, opens toward the divine rather than closing off transcendence.
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