Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?
New American Standard Bible
Yet the
King James Version
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Holman Bible
No one knows what will happen,
and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?
International Standard Version
The fool overflows with words, and no one can predict what will happen. As to what will happen after him, who can explain it?
A Conservative Version
A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
American Standard Version
A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
Amplified
Yet the fool multiplies words, though no man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after he is gone?
Darby Translation
And the fool multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?
Julia Smith Translation
And the foolish one will multiply words: man shall not know what shall be; and what shall be after him, who shall announce to him?
King James 2000
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Lexham Expanded Bible
The fool {talks too much}, for no one knows what will be. Who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future}?
Modern King James verseion
A fool also makes many words; a man knows not what they shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A fool is so full of words, that a man cannot tell what end he shall make. Who will then warn him of it that shall follow after him?
NET Bible
yet a fool keeps on babbling. No one knows what will happen; who can tell him what will happen in the future?
New Heart English Bible
A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
The Emphasized Bible
Yet, a foolish man, multiplieth words, - though no man knoweth that which hath been, and, that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
Webster
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
World English Bible
A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
Youngs Literal Translation
And the fool multiplieth words: 'Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'
Themes
Man » Ignorant of what is to come after him
Speech/communication » The mouth of a fool
Interlinear
Rabah
Yada`
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 10:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Burden Of Folly
13 The first words of his mouth are foolish, and the end of his talk is evil crime. 14 The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him? 15 The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 15:2
Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
Ecclesiastes 5:3
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8:7
No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
Job 34:37
For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.
Job 35:16
And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.
Proverbs 10:19
Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.
James 4:13-14
How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: