Ecclesiastes 10:15
The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
World English Bible
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 you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
Cross References
Psalms 107:4They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
Ecclesiastes 10:3Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
Isaiah 35:8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.
Isaiah 47:12“Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.
Isaiah 57:1The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
Habakkuk 2:6Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
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 →