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Ecclesiastes 10:14

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A fool also multiplies words.
Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

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Ecclesiastes 10:14 in other translations

A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 10:14 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 10:14 in context

  1. 12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
  2. 13The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
  3. 14A fool also multiplies words.
    Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
  4. 15The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
  5. 16Woe to you, land, when your king is a child,
    and your princes eat in the morning!