Ecclesiastes 10:15 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁵ The labor of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ The labor of fools wearies every one of them, because [he is so ignorant of the ordinary matters that] he does not even know how to get to town.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ The hard work of fools tires them out because they don’t even know the way to town!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ The hardship of the foolish will afflict those who do not know to go into the city.

Ecclesiastes 10:15 Cross References

Psalm 107:4

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

Psalm 107:7

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

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.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 10:16

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

Ecclesiastes 10:3

Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

Isaiah 55:2

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!