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Ecclesiastes 6:8

WEB

8For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

KJV

8For what hath the wise[+] more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

BSB

8[+] What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

FBV

8So then, what real advantage do wise people have over those who are fools? And do poor people really gain anything in knowing how to behave in front of others?

Extra References

Proverbs 19:1

1Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Ecclesiastes 2:14-16

14The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all. 15Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity. 16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

Psalms 101:2

2I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

Psalms 116:9

9I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

Genesis 17:1

1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Luke 1:6

6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 5:11

11When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

1 Timothy 6:17

17Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;