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

¹¹ The more words, the more vanity, so how is one the better?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ 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)

¹¹ Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Common English Bible

¹¹ Because the more words increase, the more everything is pointless. What do people gain by it?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ There are many words, and many of these, in disputes, hold much emptiness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ 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.