Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

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

Yet the fool multiplies words.
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?

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?

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?'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A fool
סכל 
Cakal 
Usage: 7

also is full
רבה 
Rabah 
Usage: 224

of words
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

a man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

what shall be and what shall be after
אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

נגד 
Nagad 
Usage: 370

References

Context Readings

The Burden Of Folly

13 the beginning of his talking is folly and the end of it is wicked madness. 14 Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him? 15 The toil of a fool so wearies him that he does not even know how to go to a city.



Cross References

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable,
But the mouth of fools spouts folly.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot. For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:7

If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?

Job 34:37

‘For he adds rebellion to his sin;
He claps his hands among us,
And multiplies his words against God.’”

Job 35:16

So Job opens his mouth emptily;
He multiplies words without knowledge.”

Proverbs 10:19

When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable,
But he who restrains his lips is wise.

James 4:13-14

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

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