Ecclesiastes 6:8 Cross References - CLV

⁸ For what advantage has a wise man over the stupid one, And what for the humble man who knows how to walk in front of the living?

¹ And coming is Abram to be ninety nine years of age. And appearing is Yahweh to Abram and is saying to him, "I am the El-Who-Suffices. Walk before Me and become flawless.

² I will contemplate the flawless way. --When shall You come to me?-- I shall walk in the integrity of my heart within my house.

⁹ I shall walk before Yahweh In the land of the living.

¹ Better one who is destitute who walks in his integrity Than one who is perverse with his lips, who also is stupid."

¹⁴ The wise man uses his eyes in his head, While the stupid man walks in darkness; Yet I realized indeed that the same destiny befalls them all." ¹⁵ So I said in my heart, Since the destiny of the stupid man is also mine, and it shall befall me, To what advantage then have I been wise? Hence I spoke in my heart, This too is vanity." ¹⁶ For there is no remembrance of the wise man or the stupid man for the eon; In the days which are already coming everyone is forgotten; Alas, the wise man dies along with the stupid one!"

¹¹ When goods increase those who devour them multiply; And what profit are they to their possessor save for the sight of his eyes?

⁶ Now they were both just in front of God, going in all the precepts and just statutes of the Lord, blameless."

¹⁷ Those who are rich in the current eon be charging not to be haughty, nor yet to rely on the dubiousness of riches, but on God, Who is tendering us all things richly for our enjoyment;"