Ecclesiastes 6:11

Hebrew	כִּ֛י יֵשׁ דְּבָרִ֥ים הַרְבֵּ֖ה מַרְבִּ֣ים הָ֑בֶל מַה יֹּתֵ֖ר לָאָדָֽם
ESV	The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?
NIV	The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?
NLT	The more words you speak, the less they mean. So what good are they?
LXX	ὅτι εἰσὶνplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigεἰμί greek εἰμί is the first person singular verb for “to be” (εἶναι [the infinitive form] = “to be”). It an irregular verb, and, like English, changes significantly between person and tense. For example εἰμί is the word for am and ἦν is the word for was, e.g. λόγοιplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigλόγος Meaning * A word or words * Statement * Message * Speech * Account * Used in John to mean God the Son Masculine noun. Related to the verb λέγω. λόγος in Greek Thought Before the New Testament, λόγος already had deep philosophical use. In Greek philosophy, λόγος was the rational principle that ordered the universe, the divine reason that structured all things. In Heraclitus, λόγος referred to the unifying rational principle behind the constant change in the world.… πολλοὶ πληθύνοντες ματαιότητα τί περισσὸν τῷplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigὁ greek The definite article ἀνθρώπῳ
KJV	Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

^{Ecclesiastes 6:10 ← Ecclesiastes 6:11 → Ecclesiastes 6:12}

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