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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
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{in great...: Heb. in great heights}

I have seen
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servants
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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
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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
<07043> (8773)

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
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{a babbler: Heb. the master of the tongue}

The words
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of a wise man's
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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
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of the words
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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
<03212> (8800)

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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