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Ecclesiastes 10:14

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14yet the fool multiplies words.

No one knows what will happen,

and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?m

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Cross references

  1. mEc 8:7,17

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

A fool multiplies words,

though no man knows what is to be,

and who can tell him what will be after him?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

and fools multiply words.

No one knows what is coming—

who can tell someone else what will happen after them?

NLTNew Living Translation

they chatter on and on.

No one really knows what is going to happen;

no one can predict the future.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The fool talks too much,

for no one knows what will be.

Who can tell anyone what will happen in the future?

KJV 1900King 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?