Ecclesiastes 6:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹¹ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man 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 as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labour, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

For thus it cometh to pass through the multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear thou God.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago, and it is known that it is man: neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.