| Ecclesiastes 6:8 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | For what advantage does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have, knowing how to walk before the living? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | What advantage does a wise person have over a fool? What advantage does a poor person have in knowing how to face life?(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? |
| ASV: | For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living? |
| BBE: | What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living? |
| DBY: | For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? |
| ERV: | For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth to walk before the living? |
| JPS: | For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or the poor man that hath understanding, in walking before the living? |
| WBS: | For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? |
| WEB: | For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living? |
| YLT: | For what advantage is to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living? |
| Ecclesiastes 6:8 Cross References |
| XREF: | Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then I said to myself, "As is the fate of the fool, it will also befall me. Why then have I been extremely wise?" So I said to myself, "This too is vanity." (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 6:8 More - In these matters. Both are subject to the same calamities, and partakers of the same comforts of this life. The poor - More than the poor that doth not know this. He means such a poor man as is ingenious and industrious; fit for service and business. |
| MHC: | 6:7-12 A little will serve to sustain us comfortably, and a great deal can do no more. The desires of the soul find nothing in the wealth of the world to give satisfaction. The poor man has comfort as well as the richest, and is under no real disadvantage. We cannot say, Better is the sight of the eyes than the resting of the soul in God; for it is better to live by faith in things to come, than to live by sense, which dwells only upon present things. Our lot is appointed. We have what pleases God, and let that please us. The greatest possessions and honours cannot set us above the common events of human life. Seeing that the things men pursue on earth increase vanities, what is man the better for his worldly devices? Our life upon earth is to be reckoned by days. It is fleeting and uncertain, and with little in it to be fond of, or to be depended on. Let us return to God, trust in his mercy through Jesus Christ, and submit to his will. Then soon shall we glide through this vexatious world, and find ourselves in that happy place, where there is fulness of joy and pleasures for evermore. |
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