Ecclesiastes 10:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁴yet fools talk on and on.
    No one knows what is to happen,
    and who can tell anyone what the future holds?
¹⁵The toil of fools wears them out,
    for they do not even know the way to town.

¹⁶Alas for you, O land, when your king is a servant,^[a]
and your princes feast in the morning!

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Ecclesiastes 10:16 Or a child

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