11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?


In Context

8 For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that knows to walk before the living?

9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

10 That which has been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 6:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:11The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:11There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man?