ESV: A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?
NIV: and fools multiply words. No one knows what is coming— who can tell someone else what will happen after them?
NASB: Yet the fool multiplies words. No person knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?
CSB: yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what will happen, and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?
NLT: they chatter on and on. No one really knows what is going to happen; no one can predict the future.
KJV: A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
NKJV: A fool also multiplies words. No man knows what is to be; Who can tell him what will be after him?
