14A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?


In Context

11 If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.

12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

14 A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

15 The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.

16 Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

Ecclesiastes 10:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:14A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:14and the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming- who can tell him what will happen after him?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:14A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:14A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:14And the fool multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:14A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:14A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:14And the fool multiplieth words: 'Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:14A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?