Ecclesiastes 10:14-16

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¹⁴A fool multiplies words,
    though no man knows what is to be,
    and who can tell him what will be after him?
¹⁵The toil of a fool wearies him,
    so that he does not know the way to the city.

¹⁶Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child,
and your princes feast in the morning!

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