Ecclesiastes 10:14 “Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who ca…”

Ecclesiastes 10:14

Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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?

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?

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?

Geneva Bible 1599

For the foole multiplieth woordes, saying, Man knoweth not what shall be: and who can tell him what shall 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?

Young's Literal Translation

And the fool multiplieth words: 'Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

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?

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Cross references

“fool”

Proverbs 15:2 Ecclesiastes 5:3 Proverbs 10:19

Proverbs 15:2 · BSB

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool spouts folly.

Ecclesiastes 5:3 · BSB

As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.

Proverbs 10:19 · BSB

When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

“is full of words”

Job 35:16 Job 34:37

Job 35:16 · BSB

So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

Job 34:37 · BSB

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

“a man”

Ecclesiastes 3:22 Ecclesiastes 6:12 Ecclesiastes 8:7 James 4:13 James 4:14

Ecclesiastes 3:22 · BSB

I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:12 · BSB

For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:7 · BSB

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

James 4:13 · BSB

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”

James 4:14 · BSB

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.

15The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.

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