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Ecclesiastes 12:10-12
Lexham English Bible

10 The Teacher[a] sought to find delightful words,[b] and he wrote[c] what is upright—truthful words.

11 The words of the wise are like cattle goads; the collections of the sages are like pricks inflicted by one shepherd.[d] 12 My son, be careful about anything beyond these things.[e] For the writing of books is endless, and too much study is wearisome.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:10 Hebrew “Qohelet”
  2. Ecclesiastes 12:10 Hebrew “words of delight”
  3. Ecclesiastes 12:10 The MT reads the term passively, “what is written,” but an alternate textual tradition reads, “and he wrote”
  4. Ecclesiastes 12:11 Or “The owner of collections are given by one shepherd”
  5. Ecclesiastes 12:12 Literally “but from more than them”
  6. Ecclesiastes 12:12 Literally “increases weariness of flesh”
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