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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?
There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
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
The number of people on earth continued to increase. When these people had daughters, the sons of God saw how beautiful they were. So they chose the women they wanted. They married them, and the women had their children. Then the Lord said, "People are only human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled by them forever. I will let them live only 120 years." During this time and also later, the Nephilim people lived in the land. They have been famous as powerful soldiers since ancient times.
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are a good man, even among the evil people of this time. So gather your family, and all of you go into the boat.
He was a great hunter before the Lord . That is why people compare other men to him and say, "That man is like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord ."
The Lord knew that the people of Sodom were very evil sinners.
Josiah, when you heard my words against this city and its people, you were sorry and humbled yourself before me. You even tore your clothes to show your sorrow and cried before me. Because your heart was tender, I the Lord , have heard you.
The Lord examines those who are good and those who are wicked; he hates those who enjoy hurting others.
My Lord, confuse their words and stop their plans. I see so much cruelty and fighting in this city.
Don't let those cruel liars enjoy success here. Let disaster hunt them down.
There will never again be news of violence in your country. People will never again attack your country and steal from you. You will name your walls, ‘Salvation' and your gates, ‘Praise.'
As a well keeps its water fresh, so Jerusalem keeps its wickedness fresh. I hear about the robbing and violence in this city all the time. I see nothing but pain and sickness there all the time.
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?
