the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Ecclesiastes 6:11
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For when there are many words, they increase futility. What is the advantage for mankind?
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?
For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a person?
The more you say, the more useless it is. What good does it do?
For there are many other words that increase futility. What then is the advantage for a man?
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?
For there are many words which increase vanity. What then is the advantage to a man?
For the more words, the more futility-and how does that profit anyone?
The more we talk, the less sense we make, so what good does it do to talk?
There are many things that only add to futility, so how do humans benefit from them?
For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?
Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage has man?
The longer you argue, the more useless it is, and you are no better off.
Increasing words only multiplies futility, how does that profit anyone?
For there are many things that increase vanity, and what is the advantage to man?
A vayne thinge is it to cast out many wordes, but what hath a man els?
Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Seeing there are many words that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Seeing there be many things that increase vanitie, what is man the better?
Many thinges there be that encrease vanitie, and what hath a man els?
For there are many things which increase vanity.
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Wordis ben ful manye, and han myche vanyte in dispuytinge.
Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is the advantage to man?
Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?
The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?
Since there are many things that increase vanity, How is man the better?
The more words you speak, the less they mean. So what good are they?
The more words there are, the more they are worth nothing. What good is that to anyone?
The more words, the more vanity, so how is one the better?
Seeing there are things in abundance which make vanity abound, what profit hath man?
There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.
The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better?
For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage [is] to man?
The more words that are spoken, the more smoke there is in the air. And who is any better off? And who knows what's best for us as we live out our meager smoke-and-shadow lives? And who can tell any of us the next chapter of our lives?
For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a man?
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Bible Verse Review
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Ecclesiastes 1:6-9, Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 1:18, Ecclesiastes 2:3-11, Ecclesiastes 3:19, Ecclesiastes 4:1-4, Ecclesiastes 4:8, Ecclesiastes 4:16, Ecclesiastes 5:7, Psalms 73:6, Hosea 12:1
Reciprocal: Job 7:16 - my days Psalms 39:6 - surely Ecclesiastes 1:2 - General Ecclesiastes 4:4 - This is Ecclesiastes 11:8 - All that Luke 10:41 - many Romans 3:1 - advantage 1 Corinthians 15:19 - this
Cross-References
And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.
And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.
The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.
Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.
Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity,.... As appears by all that has been said in this and the preceding chapters; such as wisdom and knowledge, wealth and riches, pleasure, power, and authority. Man is a poor vain creature himself, all he is and has is vanity; and these serve but to increase it, and make him vainer and vainer still;
what [is] man the better? for these things? not at all, rather the worse, being more vain; there is no profit by them, no excellency arises to him from them, no happiness in them, nothing that will be of any service to him, especially with respect to a future state, or when he comes to die. It may be rendered, as it is in the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, "seeing there are many words that multiply vanity"; as all such words do that are used with God by way of murmur and complaint concerning a man's lot and condition in this world, and as expostulating and contending with him about it; these increase sin, and by them men contract more guilt, and therefore are not the better for such litigations, but the worse; and so the words stand in connection with Ecclesiastes 6:10: but the former sense seems best, this being the conclusion of the wise man's discourse concerning vanity. So the Targum and Jarchi understand it of things, and not words.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Things - Namely, the various circumstances detailed in the foregoing chapters, from the Preacher’s personal experience, and his observation of other people, ending with the comprehensive declaration in Ecclesiastes 6:10 to the effect that vanity is an essential part of the constitution of creation as it now exists, and was foreknown.
What is man the better? - Rather, what is profitable to man?
