Text -- Ecclesiastes 10:14 (NET)

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

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Ecc 10:14

¹ 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) rather than the first line of a tricola encompassing 10:14 (KJV, NEB, RSV, NAB, ASV, NIV). Several versions capture the sense of this line well: “a fool prates on and on” (Moffatt) and “Yet the fool talks and talks!” (NJPS).

² tn Heb “after him”; or “after he [dies].”