Ecclesiastes 10:14 - English Standard Version 2016

¹⁴ A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ A fool also multiplies words, though no man can tell what will be–and what will happen after he is gone, who can tell him?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Fools talk too much! No one knows what will happen; no one can say what will happen in the future.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ The fool multiplies his words. A man does not know what has been before him, and who is able to reveal to him what will be in the future after him?

Ecclesiastes 10:14 Cross References

Job 34:37

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

Job 35:16

Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.”

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Ecclesiastes 10:15

The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many words.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?

Ecclesiastes 9:1

But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him.

Ezekiel 35:13

And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.