14     and fools multiply words.

No one knows what is coming –
    who can tell someone else what will happen after them?

15 The toil of fools wearies them;
    they do not know the way to town.

16 Woe to the land whose king was a servant[a]
    and whose princes feast in the morning.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 10:16 Or king is a child