Ecclesiastes 10:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² A wise man's heart turns him toward his right hand, but a fool's heart toward his left. [Matt. 25:31-41.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.

Common English Bible

² The mind of the wise tends toward the right, but the mind of the fool toward the left.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a foolish man is in his left hand.

Ecclesiastes 10:2 Cross References

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 10:10

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

Proverbs 17:16

Why should fools have a price in hand to buy wisdom when they have no mind to learn?

Proverbs 14:8

It is the wisdom of the clever to understand where they go, but the folly of fools misleads.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 25:33

and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left.

Colossians 3:1

So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the minds of fools.