8What advantage has a wise man over a fool? What does a poor man gain by knowing how to conduct himself before others?


In Context

5 Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man-

6 even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

7 All man's efforts are for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.

8 What advantage has a wise man over a fool? What does a poor man gain by knowing how to conduct himself before others?

9 Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

10 Whatever exists has already been named, and what man is has been known; no man can contend with one who is stronger than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:8What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:8For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:8For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth to walk before the living?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8For what advantage is to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:8For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that knows to walk before the living?