NASB
"For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a man?"
— Ecclesiastes 6:11, NASB
“Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?”
“Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? ”
“For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?”
“The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?”
“There are many words that have much vanity in disputing. ”
“There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?”
“Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?”
For what advantage does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have, knowing how to walk before the living?
What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind.
Whatever exists has already been named, and it is known what man is; for he cannot dispute with him who is stronger than he is.
For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a man?
For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?