Ecclesiastes 10:14

Catholic Public Domain Version

The fool multiplies his words. A man does not know what has been before him, and who is able to reveal to him what will be in the future after him?

Cross References

Job 34:37

For he adds blasphemy on top of his sins; nevertheless, let him be constrained to be among us, and then let him provoke God to judgment with his speeches.

Job 35:16

Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge.

Proverbs 10:19

In a multitude of speaking, sin will not be lacking. But whoever tempers his lips is most prudent.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge. But the mouth of the senseless gushes with foolishness.

Ecclesiastes 10:15

The hardship of the foolish will afflict those who do not know to go into the city.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I have discovered nothing to be better than for a man to rejoice in his work: for this is his portion. And who shall add to him, so that he may know the things that will occur after him?

Ecclesiastes 5:3

If you have vowed anything to God, you should not delay to repay it. And whatever you have vowed, render it. But an unfaithful and foolish promise displeases him.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

Consider the works of God, that no one is able to correct whomever he has despised.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he is ignorant of the past, and he is able to know nothing of the future by means of a messenger.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

I have drawn all these things through my heart, so that I might carefully understand. There are just men as well as wise men, and their works are in the hand of God. And yet a man does not know so much as whether he is worthy of love or of hatred.

Ezekiel 35:13

And you rose up against me with your mouth, and you disparaged against me with your words. I have heard.