Ecclesiastes 10:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ The words of their mouths begin in foolishness, and their talk ends in wicked madness,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is wicked madness.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Common English Bible

¹³ Fools start out talking foolishness and end up speaking awful nonsense.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ At the beginning of his words is foolishness, and at the end of his talk is a most grievous error.

Ecclesiastes 10:13 Cross References

Proverbs 29:9

If the wise go to law with fools, there is ranting and ridicule without relief.

John 12:10

So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well,

Luke 11:38

The Pharisee was amazed to see that he did not first wash before dinner.

Luke 6:11

But they were filled with fury and began discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Luke 6:2

But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

Matthew 2:16

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the magi.

2 Kings 6:31

and he said, “So may God do to me and more, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat stays on his shoulders today.”

2 Kings 6:27

He said, “If the Lord does not help you, where would my help come from? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”

2 Samuel 19:41

Then all the people of Israel came to the king and said to him, “Why have our kindred the people of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan and all David’s men with him?”

Judges 14:15

On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Coax your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?”

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

yet fools talk on and on. No one knows what is to happen, and who can tell anyone what the future holds?

Proverbs 13:16

The clever do all things intelligently, but the fool displays folly.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

Never be rash with your mouth nor let your heart be quick to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few.