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


In Context

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

9 Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

10 That which is hath already been named; and what man is, is known, and that he cannot contend with him that is mightier than he.

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

12 For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell 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 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?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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