Ecclesiastes 6:8 Cross References - Coverdale

⁸ For what hath the wyse more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore, that he knoweth to walke before the lyuynge?

¹ Now whan Abram was nyentye yeare olde and nyene, the LORDE appeared vnto him, & sayde vnto him: I am the allmightie God, walke before me, & be vncorrupte.

² O let me haue vnderstondinge in the waye of godlynesse, vntill the tyme that thou come vnto me: & so shal I walke in my house wt an innocent herte.

⁹ I wil walke before ye LORDE, in the londe of the lyuynge.

¹ Better is the poore that lyueth godly, the the blasphemer that is but a foole.

¹⁴ For a wyse man beareth his eyes aboute in his heade, but the foole goeth in the darknesse. I perceaued also that they both had one ende. ¹⁵ Then thought I in my mynde: Yf it happen vnto the foole as it doth vnto me, what nedeth me then to laboure eny more for wy?dome? So I confessed within my harte, that this also was but vanite. ¹⁶ For the wyse are euer as litle in remembraunce as the foolish, and all the dayes for to come shalbe forgotten, yee the wyse man dyeth as well as ye foole.

¹¹ Where as many riches are, there are many also that spende them awaye. And what pleasure more hath he that possesseth them, sauynge that he maye loke vpon them with his eyes?

⁶ They were both righteous before God, and walked in all the commaundementes and statutes of the LORDE vnreproueably.

¹⁷ Charge the which are riche in this worlde, that they be not proude, ner trust in the vncertayne riches, but in the lyuynge God (which geueth vs abundauntly all thinges to enioye them:)