Ecclesiastes 6:8

In 11 translations

BSB

What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

KJV

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

WEB

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

ASV

For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

LSV

For what advantage [is] to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knows to walk before the living?

YLT

For what advantage [is] to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

DBY

For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

DRC

What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?

GNV

For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?

JPS

For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or the poor man that hath understanding, in walking before the living?

LXXE

For what advantage has the wise man over the fool, since even the poor knows how to walk in the direction of life?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֛י מַה־יּוֹתֵ֥ר לֶחָכָ֖ם מִֽן־הַכְּסִ֑יל מַה־לֶּעָנִ֣י יוֹדֵ֔עַ לַהֲלֹ֖ךְ נֶ֥גֶד הַחַיִּֽים׃

LXX-Br

Ὅτι περίσσεια τῷ σοφῷ ὑπὲρ τὸν ἄφρονα, διότι ὁ πένης οἶδε πορευθῆναι κατέναντι τῆς ζωῆς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 19:1Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.
• Ecclesiastes 2:14–16The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both. So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained…
• Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
• Ecclesiastes 5:11When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?
• 1 Timothy 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
• Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
• Psalms 101:2I will ponder the way that is blameless— when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.
• Psalms 116:9I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

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