Ecclesiastes 10:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Even when he who is a fool walks along the road, his heart and understanding fail him, and he says of everyone and to everyone that he is a fool.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

Common English Bible

³ Fools lack all sense even when they walk down the street; they show everyone that they are fools.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Moreover, as a foolish man is walking along the way, even though he himself is unwise, he considers everyone to be foolish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas be himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools.

Ecclesiastes 10:3 Cross References

Proverbs 13:16

Every prudent man worketh with knowledge: But a fool spreadeth out folly.

Proverbs 18:2

A fool hath no delight in understanding, But only that his heart may reveal itself.

Proverbs 18:6

A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For a dream cometh with a multitude of business; and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.

1 Peter 4:4

wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: