Ecclesiastes 10:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 107:4 : 4 They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.
  • Ps 107:7 : 7 Guiding them in the right way, so that they might come into the town of their resting-place.
  • Eccl 10:3 : 3 And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.
  • Eccl 10:10 : 10 If the iron has no edge, and he does not make it sharp, then he has to put out more strength; but wisdom makes things go well.
  • Isa 35:8-9 : 8 And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish. 9 No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price, 10 Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.
  • Isa 44:12-17 : 12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble. 13 The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house. 14 He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth. 15 Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it. 16 With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire: 17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.
  • Isa 47:12-13 : 12 Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers. 13 But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.
  • Isa 55:2 : 2 Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.
  • Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God. 5 They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever.
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; 30 For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.

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  • Eccl 10:3
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    3 And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.

  • Eccl 10:13-14
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    13 The first words of his mouth are foolish, and the end of his talk is evil crime.

    14 The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?

  • Prov 14:7-8
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    7 Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.

    8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

  • Prov 13:16
    76%

    16 A sharp man does everything with knowledge, but a foolish man makes clear his foolish thoughts.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21 Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

  • Prov 12:15
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    15 The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

  • Prov 19:2-3
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    2 Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

    3 By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • Ps 92:6
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    6 A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16 How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

  • Prov 14:24
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    24 Their wisdom is a crown to the wise, but their foolish behaviour is round the head of the unwise.

  • Eccl 6:8
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    8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

  • Prov 24:7
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    7 Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

  • Prov 10:23
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    23 It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

  • Prov 15:14
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    14 The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

  • Prov 18:2
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    2 A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

    15 Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

    16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

  • Prov 10:14
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    14 Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.

  • Prov 17:24-25
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    24 Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

    25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

  • Prov 14:16
    72%

    16 The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9 Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

  • Prov 11:29
    72%

    29 The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

  • Prov 14:33
    72%

    33 Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

  • Prov 29:9
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    9 If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23 A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

  • Eccl 4:5
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    5 The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.

  • Prov 26:9
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    9 Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19 And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

  • Prov 26:5
    72%

    5 Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.

  • Job 17:10
    71%

    10 But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

  • Prov 10:8
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    8 The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

  • Prov 17:21
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    21 He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11 A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4 Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

  • Prov 14:18
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    18 Foolish behaviour is the heritage of the simple, but men of good sense are crowned with knowledge.

  • Prov 27:22
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    22 Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

  • Prov 9:13
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    13 The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

  • Prov 19:10
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    10 Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.

  • Prov 24:30
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    30 I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;

  • Eccl 7:6
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    6 Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

  • Prov 5:23
    71%

    23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

  • Prov 20:3
    71%

    3 It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

  • Prov 15:5
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    5 A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.