Écclésiaste 10:14

Louis Segond

L'insensé multiplie les paroles. L'homme ne sait point ce qui arrivera, et qui lui dira ce qui sera après lui?

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Or le fou entasse beaucoup de paroles; [et toutefois] l'homme ne sait point ce qui arrivera; et qui est-ce qui lui déclarera ce qui sera après lui?

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
L'insensé multiplie les paroles; toutefois l'homme ne sait ce qui arrivera; et qui lui annoncera ce qui sera après lui

Darby's French Translation
Et l'insensé multiplie les paroles: l'homme ne sait pas ce qui arrivera; et ce qui sera après lui, qui le lui déclarera?

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.