New Revised Standard Version
For what advantage have the wise over fools? And what do the poor have who know how to conduct themselves before the living?

Contemporary English Version
We may be sensible, yet we are no better off than a fool. And if we are poor, it still doesn't do us any good to try to live right.

New American Bible
What profit have the wise compared to fools, or what profit have the lowly in knowing how to conduct themselves in life?

Douay-Rheims Bible
What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?

What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?

what hath the wise

Ecclesiastes 2:14-16 The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike. . . .

Ecclesiastes 5:11 Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?

the poor

Genesis 17:1 And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

Psalm 101:2 And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

Psalm 116:9 I will please the Lord in the land of the living.

Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor man, that walketh in his simplicity, than a rich man that is perverse in his lips and unwise.

Luke 1:6 And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)