Ecclesiastes 10:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ The toil of fools wears them out, for they do not even know the way to town.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not bow to go to the city.

Ecclesiastes 10:15 Cross References

Psalm 107:4

Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town;

Psalm 107:7

he led them by a straight way, until they reached an inhabited town.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If the iron is blunt and one does not whet the edge, then more strength must be exerted, but wisdom helps one to succeed.

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?

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Alas for you, O land, when your king is a child and your princes feast in the morning!

Ecclesiastes 10:3

Even when fools walk on the road, they lack sense and show to everyone that they are fools.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your earnings for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perish, and no one considers why; the devout are taken away, while no one understands that it is due to evil that the righteous are taken away.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not everyone taunt such people and, with mocking riddles, say about them, “Alas for you who heap up what is not your own!” How long will you load yourselves with goods taken in pledge?