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Ecclesiastes 10:6-20

Folly
<05529>
is set
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in great
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dignity
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and the rich
<06223>
sit
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in low place
<08216>_.
{in great...: Heb. in great heights}
I have seen
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servants
<05650>
upon horses
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and princes
<08269>
walking
<01980> (8802)
as servants
<05650>
upon the earth
<0776>_.
He that diggeth
<02658> (8802)
a pit
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shall fall
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into it; and whoso breaketh
<06555> (8802)
an hedge
<01447>_,
a serpent
<05175>
shall bite
<05391> (8799)
him.
Whoso removeth
<05265> (8688)
stones
<068>
shall be hurt
<06087> (8735)
therewith; [and] he that cleaveth
<01234> (8802)
wood
<06086>
shall be endangered
<05533> (8735)
thereby.
If the iron
<01270>
be blunt
<06949> (8765)_,
and he do not whet
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the edge
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then must he put
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to more strength
<02428>_:
but wisdom
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[is] profitable
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to direct
<03787> (8687)_.
Surely the serpent
<05175>
will bite
<05391> (8799)
without enchantment
<03908>_;
and a babbler
<03956> <01167>
is no better
<03504>_.
{a babbler: Heb. the master of the tongue}
The words
<01697>
of a wise man's
<02450>
mouth
<06310>
[are] gracious
<02580>_;
but the lips
<08193>
of a fool
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will swallow up
<01104> (8762)
himself. {gracious: Heb. grace}
The beginning
<08462>
of the words
<01697>
of his mouth
<06310>
[is] foolishness
<05531>_:
and the end
<0319>
of his talk
<06310>
[is] mischievous
<07451>
madness
<01948>_.
{his talk: Heb. his mouth}
A fool
<05530>
also is full
<07235> (8686)
of words
<01697>_:
a man
<0120>
cannot tell
<03045> (8799)
what shall be; and what shall be after
<0310>
him, who can tell
<05046> (8686)
him? {is full...: Heb. multiplieth words}
The labour
<05999>
of the foolish
<03684>
wearieth
<03021> (8762)
every one of them, because he knoweth
<03045> (8804)
not how to go
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to the city
<05892>_.
Woe
<0337>
to thee, O land
<0776>_,
when thy king
<04428>
[is] a child
<05288>_,
and thy princes
<08269>
eat
<0398> (8799)
in the morning
<01242>_!
Blessed
<0835>
[art] thou, O land
<0776>_,
when thy king
<04428>
[is] the son
<01121>
of nobles
<02715>_,
and thy princes
<08269>
eat
<0398> (8799)
in due season
<06256>_,
for strength
<01369>_,
and not for drunkenness
<08358>_!
By much slothfulness
<06103>
the building
<04746>
decayeth
<04355> (8735)_;
and through idleness
<08220>
of the hands
<03027>
the house
<01004>
droppeth through
<01811> (8799)_.
A feast
<03899>
is made
<06213> (8802)
for laughter
<07814>_,
and wine
<03196>
maketh merry
<08055> (8762) <02416>_:
but money
<03701>
answereth
<06030> (8799)
all [things]. {maketh...: Heb. maketh glad the life}
Curse
<07043> (8762)
not the king
<04428>_,
no not in thy thought
<04093>_;
and curse
<07043> (8762)
not the rich
<06223>
in thy bedchamber
<02315> <04904>_:
for a bird
<05775>
of the air
<08064>
shall carry
<03212> (8686)
the voice
<06963>_,
and that which hath
<01167>
wings
<03671>
shall tell
<05046> (8686)
the matter
<01697>_.
{thought: or, conscience}


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