Ecclesiastes 10:14
World English Bible (WEB)
A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
In context
12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
14 A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
15 The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
16 Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
Ecclesiastes 10:14 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
- KJV King James Version
- A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
- ASV American Standard Version
- A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the fool multiplieth words: 'Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the fool multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?
- WBS Webster Bible
- A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?