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


In Context

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

9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

10 What is that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it is man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.

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

12 For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is 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 American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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