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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

智慧人比愚昧人有甚麼長處呢？窮人在眾人面前知道怎樣行事為人，又有甚麼長處呢？

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
这 样 看 来 ， 智 慧 人 比 愚 昧 人 有 甚 麽 长 处 呢 ？ 穷 人 在 众 人 面 前 知 道 如 何 行 ， 有 甚 麽 长 处 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

⁷ People work just to feed themselves, but they never seem to get enough to eat. ⁸ In this way a wise person is no better off than a fool. Then, too, it does a poor person little good to know how to get along in life. ⁹ It is better to see what you have than to want more. Wanting more is useless— like chasing the wind. ¹⁰ Whatever happens was planned long ago. Everyone knows what people are like. No one can argue with God, who is stronger than anyone.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

what hath the wise: Ecclesiastes 2:14-16, Ecclesiastes 5:11

the poor: Genesis 17:1, Psalms 101:2, Psalms 116:9, Proverbs 19:1, Luke 1:6, 1 Timothy 6:17

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 2:16 - how Ecclesiastes 2:22 - hath man Romans 3:1 - advantage

Cross-References

Genesis 6:12
When God saw that everyone on the earth did only evil,

Genesis 6:17
I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

Genesis 19:19
You have been merciful and kind to me and have saved my life. But I can't run to the mountains. The disaster will catch me, and I will die.

Psalms 84:11
The Lord God is like a sun and shield; the Lord gives us kindness and honor. He does not hold back anything good from those whose lives are innocent.

Psalms 145:20
The Lord protects everyone who loves him, but he will destroy the wicked.

Proverbs 3:4
Then you will be respected and will please both God and people.

Proverbs 8:35
Those who find me find life, and the Lord will be pleased with them.

Proverbs 12:2
The Lord is pleased with a good person, but he will punish anyone who plans evil.

Jeremiah 31:2
This is what the Lord says: "The people who were not killed by the enemy's sword found help in the desert. I came to give rest to Israel."

Luke 1:30
The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary; God has shown you his grace.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For what hath the wise more than the fool,.... More delight and pleasure, in gratifying his senses, by eating and drinking: the wise man enjoys no more than the fool; the fool finds as much pleasure in the labour of his hands, which is for his mouth, as the wise man does; and the wise man can get no more satisfaction to his mind, from these outward gratifications, than the fool;

what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? either, what does the poor man want more than the rich man, that knows how to get his bread, and is diligent and industrious among men to live, and does get a livelihood for himself and family; he enjoys all the sweets and comforts of life, as well as the rich man: or what hath the poor knowing man? as Aben Ezra interprets it, according to the accents; what has he more or does he enjoy more, than the poor foolish man, provided he has but sense enough to behave himself among men, so as to have bread to eat, and clothes to wear; which is as much as any man can enjoy, be he ever so rich or so wise?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Connect these verses with Ecclesiastes 6:2-3 : “All labor is undertaken with a view to some profit, but as a rule the people who labor are never satisfied. What advantage then has he who labors if (being rich) he is wise, or if being poor he knows how to conduct himself properly; what advantage have such laborers above a fool? (None, so far as they are without contentment, for) a thing present before the eyes is preferable to a future which exists only in the desire.”

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What - literally, what profit (as in Ecclesiastes 1:3).

Knoweth ... living - i. e., “Knows how to conduct himself rightly among his contemporaries.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 6:8. For what hath the wise more than the fool? — They must both labour for the same end. Both depend upon the labour of themselves or others for the necessaries of life. Both must eat and drink in order to live; and the rich man can no more eat two meals at a time, than he can comfortably wear two changes of raiment. The necessaries of life are the same to both, and their condition in life is nearly similar; liable to the same diseases, dissolution, and death.