Ecclesiastes 6:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth 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 when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Psalm 101:2

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way: Oh when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

Psalm 116:9

I will walk before the LORD In the land of the living.

Proverbs 19:1

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Ecclesiastes 5:11

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, saving the beholding of them with his eyes?

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

1 Timothy 6:17

Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;