Cross references

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

Ecclesiastes 6:8 BSB

Ecclesiastes 6:8 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 19:1 (5 votes) and Ecclesiastes 2:14–16 (3 votes). 4 other verses point back to it. It links with 6 other books, from Genesis 17 to 1 Timothy 6.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 6:8 point to?

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  1. Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.

  2. The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both. So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile. …

  3. When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

  4. I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.

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

  6. When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?

  7. Luke 1:62 votes

    Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

  8. Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 6:8?

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