Ecclesiastes 10:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ yet fools talk on and on. No one knows what is to happen, and who can tell anyone what the future holds?

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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

Proverbs 15:2

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

Ecclesiastes 8:7

Indeed, they do not know what is to be, for who can tell them how it will be?

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?

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For dreams come with many cares, and a fool’s voice with many words.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better than that all should enjoy their work, for that is their lot; who can bring them to see what will be after them?

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but the prudent are restrained in speech.

Job 35:16

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

Job 34:37

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

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 mortals may not find out anything that comes after them.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

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 one does not know. Everything that confronts them

Ecclesiastes 10:15

The toil of fools wears them out, for they do not even know the way to town.

Ezekiel 35:13

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