Ecclesiastes 6:8 Cross References - NHEB

⁸ For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Walk before me, and be blameless.

² I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

⁹ I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

¹ Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

¹⁴ The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all. ¹⁵ Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity. ¹⁶ For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool.

¹¹ When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

⁶ They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

¹⁷ Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;