New Revised Standard Version
yet fools talk on and on. No one knows what is to happen, and who can tell anyone what the future holds?

Contemporary English Version
They never tire of talking, but none of us really know what the future will bring.

New American Bible
yet fools multiply words. No one knows what is to come, for who can tell anyone what will be?

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

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

fool

Ecclesiastes 5:3 Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.

Proverbs 10:19 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: but the heart of the wicked is nothing worth.

Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: but the mouth of fools bubbleth out folly.

is full of words

Job 34:37 Because he addeth blasphemy upon his sins, let him be tied fast in the mean time amongst us: and then let him provoke God to judgment with his speeches.

Job 35:16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.

a man

Ecclesiastes 3:22 And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:12 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:7 Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

James 4:13,14 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain. . . .