Parallel ECC 10:14

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BSB Yet the fool multiplies words.
⇔ No one knows what is coming,
⇔ and who can tell him what will come after him?

OEB The fool maketh many words.
⇔ Man knoweth not the future;
 ⇔ And what shall happen after him,
⇔ Who can declare unto him?

WEB A fool also multiplies words.
¶ Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

NET yet a fool keeps on babbling.
 ⇔ No one knows what will happen;
 ⇔ who can tell him what will happen in the future?

LSV And the fool multiplies words: “Man does not know that which is—And that which is after him, who declares to him?”

FBV Fools talk on and on, however no one knows what's going to happen, so who can say what the future holds?

T4T They talk ◄too much/without ceasing►.
 ⇔ None of us knows what will happen in the future,
⇔ or what will happen after we die.

LEB  •  for no one knows what will be. •  Who can tell anyone what will happen

BBE The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?

MOF No MOF ECC book available

JPS A fool also multiplieth words; yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

ASV A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

DRA A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

YLT And the fool multiplieth words: 'Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

DBY And the fool multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?

RV A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

WBS A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

KJB A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

BB A foole is full of wordes, and a man can not tell what shall come to passe: who wyll then warne hym of it that shall folowe after hym?
  (A foole is full of words, and a man cannot tell what shall come to pass: who will then warne him of it that shall follow after him?)

GNV For the foole multiplieth woordes, saying, Man knoweth not what shall be: and who can tell him what shall be after him?
  (For the foole multiplieth woordes, saying, Man knowth/knows not what shall be: and who can tell him what shall be after him?)

CB A foole is so full of wordes, that a man can not tell what ende he wyll make: who wyl then warne him to make a conclucion?
  (A foole is so full of words, that a man cannot tell what end he will make: who will then warne him to make a conclucion?)

WYC A fool multiplieth wordis; a man noot, what was bifore hym, and who mai schewe to hym that, that schal come aftir hym?
  (A fool multiplieth words; a man noot, what was before him, and who mai show to him that, that shall come after him?)

LUT Ein Narr macht viel Worte; denn der Mensch weiß nicht, was gewesen ist; und wer will ihm sagen, was nach ihm werden wird?
  (Ein Narr macht many Worte; because the person weiß not, was been ist; and wer will him say, was nach him become wird?)

CLV Stultus verba multiplicat. Ignorat homo quid ante se fuerit; et quid post se futurum sit, quis ei poterit indicare?
  (Stultus verba multiplicat. Ignorat human quid ante se fuerit; and quid after se futurum let_it_be, quis to_him poterit indicare?)

BRN A fool moreover multiplies words: man knows not what has been, nor what will be: who shall tell him what will come after him?

BrLXX καὶ ὁ ἄφρων πληθύνει λόγους· οὐκ ἔγνω ἄνθρωπος τί τὸ γενόμενον, καὶ τί τὸ ἐσόμενον, ὅ, τι ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ τίς ἀναγγελεῖ αὐτῷ;
  (kai ho afrōn plaʸthunei logous; ouk egnō anthrōpos ti to genomenon, kai ti to esomenon, ho, ti opisō autou tis anangelei autōi?)