Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Ecclesiastes 10:14
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Berean Standard Bible
Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
King James Version
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
World English Bible
A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
American Standard Version
A fool also multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
Berean Literal Bible
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Ecclesiastes 10
12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.
13 The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.
15 The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
16 Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
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