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Ecclesiastes 10:14-16
New Century Version
Ecclesiastes 10:14-16
New Century Version
14 A fool talks too much.
No one knows the future,
and no one can tell what will happen after death.
15 Work wears fools out;
they don’t even know how to get home.
The Value of Work
16 How terrible it is for a country whose king is a child
and whose leaders eat all morning.
Ecclesiastes 10:14-16
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 10:14-16
New International Version
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.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 10:16 Or king is a child
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