Ecclesiastes 6:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The more words, the more vanity, so how is one the better?

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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

Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them like a garment.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also; why then have I been so very wise?” And I said to myself that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

there was no end to all those people whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

With many dreams come vanities and a multitude of words, but fear God.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what humans are and that they are not able to dispute with those who are stronger.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell them what will be after them under the sun?

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim herds the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a treaty with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.