Ecclesiastes 6:8 - The Scriptures 2009

⁸ For what advantage has the wise over the fool? What advantage does the poor have who knows how to walk before the living?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For what advantage has the wise man over the fool [being worldly-wise is not the secret to happiness]? What advantage has the poor man who has learned how to walk before the living [publicly, with men's eyes upon him; being poor is not the secret to happiness either]?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

Common English Bible

⁸ What advantage do the wise have over the foolish? Or what do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before the living?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ What do the wise have which is more than the foolish? And what does the pauper have, except to continue on to that place, where there is life?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?

Ecclesiastes 6:8 Cross References

Genesis 17:1

And it came to be when Aḇram was ninety-nine years old, that יהוה appeared to Aḇram and said to him, “I am Ěl Shaddai – walk before Me and be perfect.

Psalm 101:2

I act wisely in a perfect way. When do You come to me? I walk in the midst of my house with a perfect heart.

Psalm 116:9

I shall walk before יהוה in the land of the living.

Proverbs 19:1

Better is the poor walking in his integrity Than one of perverse lips, who is a fool.

Ecclesiastes 5:11

With the increase of goods, there is an increase of those consuming them. What advantage then is there to their owners, but to look on?

Ecclesiastes 6:9

What the eyes see is better than what the desire goes after. That too is futile and feeding on wind.

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before Elohim, blamelessly walking in all the commands and righteousnesses of יהוה.

1 Timothy 6:17

Charge those who are rich in this present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living Elohim, who gives us richly all for enjoyment,