Ecclesiastes 10:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 2 The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a fool shall throw him down headlong.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which proceeds from the ruler:

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

Common English Bible

⁵ There’s an evil that I have seen under the sun: the kind of mistake that comes from people in power.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, proceeding from the presence of a prince, as if by mistake:

Ecclesiastes 10:5 Cross References

Proverbs 19:10

7 He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord: and he will repay him.

Proverbs 28:12

9 He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he that followeth idleness shall be filled with poverty.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

1 If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

Ecclesiastes 10:6

3 The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a mischievous error.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

4 Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

0 For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight,

Ecclesiastes 6:1

What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?

Ecclesiastes 9:3

0 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.