Ecclesiastes 6:11 - The Scriptures 2009

The more words, the more futility – what is to man the advantage?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Seeing that there are [all these and] many other things and words that increase the emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and futility [of living], what profit and what outcome is there for man?

American Standard Version (1901)

Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Common English Bible

Because the more words increase, the more everything is pointless. What do people gain by it?

Catholic Public Domain Version

There are many words, and many of these, in disputes, hold much emptiness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.

Ecclesiastes 6:11 Cross References

Psalm 73:6

So pride is their necklace, The garment of violence covers them.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

And I said in my heart, “As the event of the fool, even so it befalls me, and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart, “This also is futile.”

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the event of the sons of men is also the event of beasts – one event befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Indeed, they all have one breath – man has no advantage over beasts. For all is futile.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There was no end of all the people; all of whom he headed. But the ones who come afterward do not rejoice in him. For that too is futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

For in much dreaming and many words there is futility. But fear Elohim.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever shall be, has already been named, and it is known that he is son of Aḏam. And he is unable to contend with Him who is mightier than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his futile life, which he passes like a shadow? For who declares to man what shall be after him, under the sun?

Hosea 12:1

Ephrayim is feeding on wind, and pursuing an east wind. All the day he increases falsehood and ruin. And they make a covenant with Ashshur, and oil is sent to Mitsrayim.