A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsA fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
And the fool multiplieth words: `Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'
And the fool multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEcclesiastes — Qohelet the Preacher — ''vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' The book's relentless examination of life under the sun, resolving not in despair but in ''fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.''
- Author
- Traditional: Solomon (''son of David, king in Jerusalem''). Critical: a later Qohelet figure writing in Solomonic persona. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer carries the position.
- Date
- Solomonic reading: c. 940 BC. Critical reading: Persian or early Hellenistic period (5th–3rd century BC).