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Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Prediker 10:14

Een zot gebruikt veel woorden; de mens weet niet, wat er zijn zal; en wat na hem zijn zal, wie zal het hem mededelen?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fool;   Speaking;   Words;   Thompson Chain Reference - Future, the;   Knowledge;   Mysteries-Revelations;   The Topic Concordance - Foolishness;   Speech/communication;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fools;   Man;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ecclesiastes;   Writing;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for August 19;  

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Een dwaas gebruikt vele woorden; want de mens weet niet, wat er geweest is, en wie zal hem zeggen, wat er van hem worden zal?
Staten Vertaling
De dwaas maakt wel veel woorden; maar de mens weet niet, wat het zij, dat geschieden zal; en wat na hem geschieden zal, wie zal het hem te kennen geven?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fool: Ecclesiastes 5:3, Proverbs 10:19, Proverbs 15:2

is full of words: Heb. multiplieth words, Job 34:37, Job 35:16

a man: Ecclesiastes 3:22, Ecclesiastes 6:12, Ecclesiastes 8:7, James 4:13, James 4:14

Reciprocal: Job 16:4 - up words Proverbs 17:28 - General Ecclesiastes 10:2 - but Ezekiel 35:13 - have multiplied

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A fool also is full of words,.... Or, "multiplies words" y. Is very talkative, says the same thing over and over again; uses an abundance of waste words, that have no meaning in them; utters every thing that comes uppermost, without any order or judgment; affects to talk on every subject, whether he knows anything of it or not; and will engross all the conversation to himself, though of all in company the most unfit for it;

a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him who can tell him? what the fool is talking of; what is the drift of his discourse; or where it will end, and what he will bring it to, it is so noisy, confused, and incoherent: or no man can tell future things, or what will come to pass; nor can any man inform another of future events; and yet a fool boasts and brags of what he shall do, and what he shall have, as if he was master of the future, and knew for certain what would come to pass, which the wisest of men do not.

y ירבה "multiplicabit", Pagninus, Montanus; "multiplicat", Vatablus, Mercerus, Drusius, Amama, Gejerus, Rambachius, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Full of words - Confident talking of the future is indicated rather than mere loquacity. Compare James 4:13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. A man cannot tell what shall be — A foolish babbling man will talk on every subject, though he can say as little on the past, as he can on the future.


 
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