Ecclesiastes 6:8 - Tree of Life Version

⁸ So what advantage has the wise over the fool? What does the pauper gain by knowing how 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?

Ecclesiastes 6:8 Tagairtí Cros

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.