Ecclesiastes 6:8

What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

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?

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?

Geneva Bible 1599

For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?

Darby Translation

For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Young's Literal Translation

For what advantage [is] to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

Bible in Basic English

What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

In context

7All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.

9Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Read Ecclesiastes 6