Ecclesiastes 10:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

yet fools talk on and on. No one knows what is to happen, and who can tell anyone what the future holds?

Cross References

Job 34:37

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

Job 35:16

Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.”

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but the prudent are restrained in speech.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Ecclesiastes 10:15

The toil of fools wears them out, for they do not even know the way to town.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better than that all should enjoy their work, for that is their lot; who can bring them to see what will be after them?

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For dreams come with many cares, and a fool’s voice with many words.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell them what will be after them under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity, be joyful, and in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that comes after them.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

Indeed, they do not know what is to be, for who can tell them how it will be?

Ecclesiastes 9:1

All this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate one does not know. Everything that confronts them

Ezekiel 35:13

And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.