Parallel Verses
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?
New American Standard Bible
For
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?
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?
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}?
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 the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. 8 For what advantage has the wise man more than the fool? What has the poor man, who knows how to walk before the living? 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Psalm 101:2
I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will thou come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
Psalm 116:9
I will walk before LORD in the land of the living.
Proverbs 19:1
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
Ecclesiastes 2:14-16
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
Ecclesiastes 5:11
When goods increase, they are increased who eat them. And what advantage is there to the owner of it, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, going in all the commandments and righteous things of the Lord blameless.
1 Timothy 6:17
Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,