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14 He never stops talking. No one knows what the future will bring, or what will happen after ⌞death⌟. Who can say! 15 Fools wear themselves out with hard work, because they don’t even know the way to town.

16 How horrible it will be for any country where the king used to be a servant and where the high officials throw parties in the morning.

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14     and fools multiply words.(A)

No one knows what is coming—
    who can tell someone else what will happen after them?(B)

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](C)
    and whose princes feast in the morning.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 10:16 Or king is a child