Ecc 10:14 | NET2full | STEP | yet a fool keeps on babbling . No one knows what will happen ; who can tell him what will happen in the future ?

‏ Ecclesiastes 10:14

14 yet a fool keeps on babbling. ^{▼▼tn Heb “and the fool multiplies words.” This line is best taken as the third line of a tricola encompassing 10:13-14a (NASB, NRSV, NJPS, Moffatt, NIV, NAB) rather than the first line of a tricola encompassing 10:14 (KJV, NEB, RSV, ASV). Several versions capture the sense of this line well: “a fool prates on and on” (Moffatt) and “Yet the fool talks and talks!” (NJPS).}
No one knows what will happen;
who can tell him what will happen in the future? ^{▼▼tn Heb “after him”; or “after he [dies].”}