Ecclesiastes 6:8 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

⁸ For what will remain to the wise one more than the foolish one? what to the poor that shall know to go 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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 17:1

And Abram shall be the son of ninety years and nine years: Jehovah shall be seen to Abram and will say to him, I am God Almighty; walk thou before me, and be complete.

Psalm 101:2

I will be prudent in a blameless way. When wilt thou come to me? I will go about in integrity of heart in the midst of my house.

Psalm 116:9

I will go about before Jehovah in the lands of the living.

Proverbs 19:1

Good the poor one going in his integrity above the perverse of lips, and he foolish.

Ecclesiastes 5:11

In the multitude of good they were multiplied eating it: and what the success to its possessors but seeing with his eyes?

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Good the sight of the eyes above the going of the soul. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit

Luke 1:6

And they were both just before God, going faultless in all the commands and precepts of the Lord.

1 Timothy 6:17

To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;