Devine Scripture

Ecclesiastes 6:8

Ecclesiastes chapter 6 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

Context

v.7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

v.8This passage

v.9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:14

    The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

  • Genesis 17:1

    And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:11

    When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding of them with his eyes?

  • Psalms 116:9

    I will walk before Jehovah In the land of the living.

  • 1 Timothy 6:17

    Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

  • Luke 1:6

    And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.