Ecclesiastes 10:2 - The Scriptures 1998

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

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the clever is to understand His way, But the folly of fools is deceit.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, But the heart of fools is not so.

Proverbs 17:16

Why is this – a price in the hand Of a fool to buy wisdom, When there is no heart?

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If an iron tool is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, then he needs more strength, and wisdom is advantageous to make right.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

And a fool increases words; a man knows not what shall come to be; and who declares to him what shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 9:10

All that your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

Matthew 25:33

“And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.

Matthew 6:33

“But seek first the reign of Elohim, and His righteousness, and all these matters shall be added to you.

Colossians 3:1

If, then, you were raised with Messiah, seek the matters which are above, where Messiah is, seated at the right hand of Elohim.