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


In Context

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

9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

10 Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

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

12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will 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 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?