Ecclesiastes 10:15

A Conservative Version

The labor of fools wearies every one of them, for he knows not how to go to the city.

Cross References

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil [to come].

Ecclesiastes 10:3

Yea also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone [that] he is a fool.

Psalm 107:7

He also led them by a straight way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Psalm 107:4

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city of habitation.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his (how long?) and who loads himself with pledges!

Isaiah 55:2

Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If the iron be blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then he must increase strength. But wisdom is advantageous to make right.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy rulers feast in the morning!