Ecclesiastes 10:14
 Ecclesiastes 10:14 
New International Version (© 2011)
and fools multiply words. No one knows what is coming-- who can tell someone else what will happen after them?

King James 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?

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?

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?'

Ecclesiastes 10:14 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

A man cannot tell what shall be - A foolish babbling man will talk on every subject, though he can say as little on the past, as he can on the future.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

fool

Ecclesiastes 5:3 For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

Proverbs 10:19 In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

is full of words

Job 34:37 For he adds rebellion to his sin, he clapps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.

Job 35:16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.

a man

Ecclesiastes 3:22 Why I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion...

Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow?...

Ecclesiastes 8:7 For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

James 4:13,14 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain...

Ecclesiastes 10:14 Parallel Commentaries
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Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.
Ecclesiastes 3:22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
Ecclesiastes 5:3 A dream comes when there are many cares, and many words mark the speech of a fool.
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
Ecclesiastes 7:14 When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.
Ecclesiastes 8:7 Since no one knows the future, who can tell someone else what is to come?
Ecclesiastes 9:1 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.