Ecclesiastes 10:15
The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not bow to go to the city.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.
Cross References
Psalms 107:4They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.
Ecclesiastes 10:3Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas be himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools.
Isaiah 35:8And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.
Isaiah 47:12Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger.
Isaiah 57:1The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.
Habakkuk 2:6Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?
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 →