Ecclesiastes 10:15

The hardship of the foolish will afflict those who do not know to go into the city.

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In The King James Version

The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

In Context

14The fool multiplies his words. A man does not know what has been before him, and who is able to reveal to him what will be in the future after him?

16Woe to you, the land whose king is a boy, and whose princes consume in the morning.

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Cross References

Psalms 107:4I will confess to you, O Lord, among the peoples. And I will sing psalms to you among the nations.

Ecclesiastes 10:3Moreover, as a foolish man is walking along the way, even though he himself is unwise, he considers everyone to be foolish.

Isaiah 35:8And there shall be a path and a road in that place. And it will be called the Holy Way. The defiled will not pass through it. For this will be an upright path for you, so much so that the foolish will not wander along it.

Isaiah 47:12Stand with your incantations, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if somehow it might benefit you, or as if it were able to make you stronger.

Isaiah 57:1The just man perishes, and there is no one who acknowledges it in his heart; and men of mercy are taken away, for there is no one who understands. For the just man has been taken away before the face of malice.

Habakkuk 2:6Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and an enigmatic utterance about him? And it will be said, “Woe to him who increases what is not his own.” How long, then, will he lay down dense clay against himself?

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 10:13-16

The Contemptibleness of Folly. 12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. 14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him? 15 The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city. Solomon, having shown the benefit of wisdom, and of what great… Read the whole commentary →

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