Ecclesiastes 10:10 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁰ 7 Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ If the ax is dull and the man does not whet the edge, he must put forth more strength; but wisdom helps him to succeed.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ If an ax is dull and one doesn’t sharpen it first, then one must exert more force. It’s profitable to be skillful and wise.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ If the iron is dull, and if it was not that way before, but has been made dull by much labor, then it will be sharpened. And wisdom will follow after diligence.

Ecclesiastes 10:10 Cross References

1 Kings 3:9

4 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and Beep my precepts, and my commandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days.

1 Chronicles 12:32

7 And on the other side of the Jordan of the sons of Ruben, and of Gad, and of the half of the tribe of Manasses a hundred and twenty thousand, furnished with arms for war.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

8 By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through the weakness of hands, the house shall drop through.

Ecclesiastes 10:15

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Ecclesiastes 10:9

6 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.

Ecclesiastes 2:13

0 Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.

Matthew 10:16

4 The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord.

Romans 16:19

PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes a brother,

1 Corinthians 14:20

9 And let the prophets speak, two or three; and let the rest judge.

Deuteronomy 32:41

6 And he said to them : Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:

Colossians 4:5

4 Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth you: and Demas.

James 1:5

4 But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.