Parallel Verses
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
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?
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?
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 for his mouth, and also the soul shall not be filled. 8 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 9 Good the sight of the eyes above the going of the soul. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 17:1
And Abram shall be the son of ninety years and nine years: Jehovah shall be seen to Abram and will say to him, I am God Almighty; walk thou before me, and be complete.
Psalm 101:2
I will be prudent in a blameless way. When wilt thou come to me? I will go about in integrity of heart in the midst of my house.
Psalm 116:9
I will go about before Jehovah in the lands of the living.
Proverbs 19:1
Good the poor one going in his integrity above the perverse of lips, and he foolish.
Ecclesiastes 2:14-16
The wise, his eyes in his head; and the foolish one goes in darkness: and I knew, I also, that one event will meet with them all.
Ecclesiastes 5:11
In the multitude of good they were multiplied eating it: and what the success to its possessors but seeing with his eyes?
Luke 1:6
And they were both just before God, going faultless in all the commands and precepts of the Lord.
1 Timothy 6:17
To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;