Ecclesiastes 6:8

Tree of Life Version

So what advantage has the wise over the fool? What does the pauper gain by knowing how to walk before the living?

Cross References

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was 99 years old, Adonai appeared to Abram, and He said to him, “I am El Shaddai. Continually walk before Me and you will be blameless.

Psalm 101:2

I will behave wisely in the way of integrity —when will You come to me? I walk in my house with integrity in my heart.

Psalm 116:9

I will walk before Adonai in the lands of the living.

Proverbs 19:1

Better to be poor, walking with integrity, than be a fool whose lips are corrupt.

Ecclesiastes 5:11

The sleep of the laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much— but the excess of the rich permits him no sleep.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is what the eyes see than the pursuit of the soul’s desires. This too is fleeting and striving after wind.

Luke 1:6

Together they were righteous before Adonai, walking without fault in all His commandments and instructions.

1 Timothy 6:17

Direct those who are rich in this present age not to be proud or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God—who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.