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Ecclesiastes 6:11
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Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is the advantage to man?
The more you say, the more useless it is. What good does it do?
The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?
Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
For there are many other words that increase futility. What then is the advantage for a man?
The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?
Wordis ben ful manye, and han myche vanyte in dispuytinge.
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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?
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?
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 words that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Seeing there be many things that increase vanitie, what is man the better?
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?
Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?
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.
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?
Many thinges there be that encrease vanitie, and what hath a man els?
For there are many things which increase vanity.
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?
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?
For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage [is] to man?
A vayne thinge is it to cast out many wordes, but what hath a man els?
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 person?
Since there are many things that increase vanity, How is man the better?
For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a man?
For there are many words which increase vanity. What then is the advantage to a man?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
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
Then the people began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them.
The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives.
When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
Since he was the greatest hunter in the world, his name became proverbial. People would say, "This man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world."
But the people of this area were extremely wicked and constantly sinned against the Lord .
You were sorry and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this city and its people. You humbled yourself and tore your clothing in despair and wept before me in repentance. And I have indeed heard you, says the Lord .
The Lord examines both the righteous and the wicked. He hates those who love violence.
Confuse them, Lord, and frustrate their plans, for I see violence and conflict in the city.
Don't let liars prosper here in our land. Cause great disasters to fall on the violent.
Violence will disappear from your land; the desolation and destruction of war will end. Salvation will surround you like city walls, and praise will be on the lips of all who enter there.
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?
