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14 A fool ·talks too much [L multiplies words].
    No one knows ·the future [L what will happen],
    and ·no one [who…?] can tell what will happen after ·death [L him].
15 ·Work [Toil] wears fools out;
    they don’t even know how to get ·home [L to the city].

The Value of Work

16 ·How terrible it is for a [L Woe to you, O] country whose king is ·a child [or immature]
    and whose leaders ·eat all [or feast in the] morning [Is. 5:11–12; 21:5].

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