Ecclesiastes 10:14
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Able Declare Fool Foolish Full Multiplies Multiplieth Words
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English Standard Version
A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?

New American Standard Bible
Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

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?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what will happen, and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?

International Standard Version
The fool overflows with words, and no one can predict what will happen. As to what will happen after him, who can explain it?

NET Bible
yet a fool keeps on babbling. No one knows what will happen; who can tell him what will happen in the future?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He never stops talking. No one knows what the future will bring, or what will happen after [death]. Who can say!

King James 2000 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 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?

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?

Douay-Rheims Bible
A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Darby Bible Translation
And the fool multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?

English Revised Version
A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Webster's Bible Translation
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

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?

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?'
Lexicon
A fool
cakal  (saw-kawl')
silly -- fool(-ish), sottish.
also is full
rabah  (raw-baw')
to increase (in whatever respect)
of words
dabar  (daw-baw')
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
a man
'adam  (aw-dawm')
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.) -- another, + hypocrite, + common sort, low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
cannot tell
yada`  (yaw-dah')
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially
what shall be and what shall be after
'achar  (akh-ar')
the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
him who can tell
nagad  (naw-gad')
to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise
him
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