Ecclesiastes 10:14

In 11 translations

BSB

Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

KJV

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?is full…: Heb. multiplieth words

WEB

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

ASV

A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

LSV

And the fool multiplies words: “Man does not know that which is—And that which is after him, who declares to him?”

YLT

And the fool multiplieth words: 'Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

DBY

And the fool multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?

DRC

A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

GNV

For the foole multiplieth woordes, saying, Man knoweth not what shall be: and who can tell him what shall be after him?

JPS

A fool also multiplieth words; yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

LXXE

A fool moreover multiplies words: man knows not what has been, nor what will be: who shall tell him what will come after him?

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WLC

וְהַסָּכָ֖ל יַרְבֶּ֣ה דְבָרִ֑ים לֹא־יֵדַ֤ע הָאָדָם֙ מַה־שֶׁיִּֽהְיֶ֔ה וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר יִֽהְיֶה֙ מֵֽאַחֲרָ֔יו מִ֖י יַגִּ֥יד לֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

καὶ ὁ ἄφρων πληθύνει λόγους· οὐκ ἔγνω ἄνθρωπος τί τὸ γενόμενον, καὶ τί τὸ ἐσόμενον, ὅ, τι ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ τίς ἀναγγελεῖ αὐτῷ;

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 15:2The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool spouts folly.
• Ecclesiastes 5:3As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.
• James 4:13–14Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist…
• Ecclesiastes 8:7Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
• Ecclesiastes 3:22I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
• Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
• Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
• Proverbs 10:19When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
• Job 34:37For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

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