Ecclesiastes 10:15
Verse 15 of 20. The 10th of 12 chapters in Ecclesiastes, in Poetry and Wisdom.
11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
13The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
14A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
15The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
17Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
18By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
19A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
Ecclesiastes 10:15 in the World English Bible
The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.Read Ecclesiastes 10:15 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 10:15
Fools toil a great deal to no purpose (v. 15); The labour of the foolish, to accomplish their designs, wearies every one of them. 1. They weary themselves in that labour which is very foolish and absurd. All their labour is for the world and the body, and the meat that perishes, and in this labour they spend their strength, and exhaust their spirits, and weary themselves for very vanity, Hab. ii. 13; Isa. lv. 2.
Read Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 10:12–15: The Contemptibleness of Folly.
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