Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
So do the wise [really] have an advantage over fools? {Can the poor [really] gain anything by knowing how to act in front of others}?
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Holman Bible
What advantage then does the wise man have over the fool?
International Standard Version
For what advantage has the wise person over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have in knowing how to face life?
A Conservative Version
For what advantage has the wise man more than the fool? What has the poor man, who knows how to walk before the living?
American Standard Version
For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?
Amplified
For what advantage has the wise man over the fool [for being worldly-wise is not the secret to happiness]? What advantage has the poor man who has learned how to walk [publicly] among the living [with men’s eyes on him; for being poor is not the secret to happiness either]?
Bible in Basic English
What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
Darby Translation
For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Julia Smith Translation
For what will remain to the wise one more than the foolish one? what to the poor that shall know to go before the living
King James 2000
For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, who knows to walk before the living?
Modern King James verseion
For what has the wise more than the fool? What gain has the poor who knows how to walk before the living?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For what hath the wise more than the fool? What helpeth it the poor, that he knoweth to walk before the living?
NET Bible
So what advantage does a wise man have over a fool? And what advantage does a pauper gain by knowing how to survive?
New Heart English Bible
For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
The Emphasized Bible
For what profit hath the wise man, over the dullard? What can, the poor man, know - so as to walk before the living?
Webster
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
World English Bible
For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
Youngs Literal Translation
For what advantage is to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?
Interlinear
Chakam
Yada`
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 6:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
One Must Learn To Be Content With What One Has
7 All of a man's toil [is] for his mouth-- yet his appetite is never satisfied. 8 So do the wise [really] have an advantage over fools? {Can the poor [really] gain anything by knowing how to act in front of others}? 9 {Better to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 17:1
When Abram [was] ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, "I [am] El-Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless
Psalm 101:2
I will give attention to [the] way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will walk in the integrity of my heart in the midst of my house.
Psalm 116:9
I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
Proverbs 19:1
Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse {in his speech} and is a fool.
Ecclesiastes 2:14-16
{The wise man can see where he is walking}, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate.
Ecclesiastes 5:11
When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}.
Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous in the sight of God, living blamelessly in all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.
1 Timothy 6:17
Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,