Ecclesiastes 10:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

Proverbs 17:16

Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding?

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: But the folly of fools is deceit.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Matthew 6:33

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Matthew 25:33

and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Colossians 3:1

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: But the heart of the foolish doeth not so.