Ecclesiastes 10:14

Coverdale Bible (1535)

A foole is so full of wordes, that a man can not tell what ende he wyll make: who wyl then warne him to make a conclucion?

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  • Prov 15:2 : 2 A wyse tonge commendeth knowlege, a foolish mouth blabbeth out nothinge but foolishnesse.
  • Eccl 3:22 : 22 Wherfore I perceaue, yt there is nothyinge better for a man, then to be ioyfull in his laboure, for that is his porcion. But who wil brynge him to se the thinge, that shal come after him?
  • Eccl 5:3 : 3 For where moch carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: & where many wordes are, there men maye heare fooles.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what is good for man lyuynge, in ye dayes of his vayne life, which is but a shadowe? Or, who wil tell a man, what shal happen after him vnder the Sonne?
  • Eccl 8:7 : 7 And why? a man knoweth not what is for to come, for who wyll tell him?
  • Jas 4:13-14 : 13 Go to now ye that saye: to daye & to morow let vs go into soche a citie and continue there a yeare, and bye and sell, and wynne: 14 & yet ca not tell what shal happe to morowe. For what thinge is youre life? It is euen a vapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme, and the vanysheth awaye:
  • Job 34:37 : 37 yee aboue his synnes he hath blasphemed, which offence he hath done euen before vs, in yt he stryueth agaynst God with his wordes.
  • Job 35:16 : 16 Therfore hath Iob opened his mouth but in vayne, ad folishly hath he made so many wordes.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 Where moch bablinge is, there must nedes be offence: he that refrayneth his lippes, is wysest of all.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 82%

    12The wordes out of a wyse mans mouth are gracious, but the lippes of a foole wil destroye himself.

    13The begynnynge of his talkynge is foolishnes, and the last worde of his mouth is greate madnesse.

  • 15The laboure of ye foolish is greuous vnto the, while they knowe not how to go in to the cite.

  • 3A dotinge foole thinketh, yt euery ma doth as foolishly as himself.

  • 11A foole poureth out his sprete alltogether, but a wyse man kepeth it in till afterwarde.

  • Eccl 2:14-16
    3 verses
    76%

    14For a wyse man beareth his eyes aboute in his heade, but the foole goeth in the darknesse. I perceaued also that they both had one ende.

    15Then thought I in my mynde: Yf it happen vnto the foole as it doth vnto me, what nedeth me then to laboure eny more for wy?dome? So I confessed within my harte, that this also was but vanite.

    16For the wyse are euer as litle in remembraunce as the foolish, and all the dayes for to come shalbe forgotten, yee the wyse man dyeth as well as ye foole.

  • 19for who knoweth, whether he shalbe a wyse ma or a foole? And yet shal he be lorde of all my labours, which I with soch wy?dome haue taken vnder the Sonne. Is not this a vayne thinge?

  • 20Yf thou seyst a man that is haistie to speake vnaduysed, thou mayest trust a foole more then him.

  • 7And why? a man knoweth not what is for to come, for who wyll tell him?

  • 16A wyse man doth all thinges with discrecion, but a foole wil declare his foly.

  • 6An vnwyse man wil not knowe this, & a foole wil not vnderstode it.

  • 14Wyse me laye vp knowlege, but ye mouth of ye foolish is nye destruccio.

  • 9Tel nothinge in to ye eares of a foole, for he wyl despyse the wy?dome of thy wordes.

  • 3For where moch carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: & where many wordes are, there men maye heare fooles.

  • Prov 14:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7Se yt thou medle not with a foole, & do as though thou haddest no knowlege.

    8The wy?dome of him that hath vnderstondinge is, to take hede vnto his waye, but the foolishnesse of the vnwyse disceaueth.

  • 8For what hath the wyse more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore, that he knoweth to walke before the lyuynge?

  • 23He that hath vnderstodinge, can hyde his wysdome: but an vndiscrete herte telleth out his foolishnesse.

  • 2A foole hath no delyte in vnderstodinge, but only in those thinges wherin his herte reioyseth.

  • 24Riches are an ornament vnto the wyse, but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse.

  • 28Yee a very foole (when he holdeth his tonge) is counted wyse, and to haue vnderstodinge, when he shutteth his lippes.

  • 14A wyse herte wil seke after knowlege, but ye mouth of fooles medleth with foolishnesse.

  • 16A wyse man, feareth, and departeth from euell, but a foole goeth on presumptuously.

  • Prov 26:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4Geue not the foole an answere after his foolishnesse, lest thou become like vnto him:

    5but make ye foole an answere to his foolishnesse, lest he be wyse in his owne coceate.

  • 23A foole doth wickedly & maketh but a sporte of it: neuertheles it is wysdome for a man to bewarre of soch.

  • 33Wy?dome resteth in the herte of him that hath vnderstondinge, and he wyll teach them that are vnlerned.

  • 73%

    18Dissemblynge lippes kepe hatred secretly, and he that speaketh eny slaunder, is a foole.

    19Where moch bablinge is, there must nedes be offence: he that refrayneth his lippes, is wysest of all.

  • 7Wy?dome is an hie thinge, yee eue to ye foole, for he darre not ope his mouth in ye gate.

  • 2A wyse tonge commendeth knowlege, a foolish mouth blabbeth out nothinge but foolishnesse.

  • 72%

    11Like as the dogg turneth agayne to his vomite, euen so a foole begynneth his foolishnesse agayne afresh.

    12Yf thou seyest a man yt is wyse in his owne conceate, there is more hope in a foole then in hi.

  • 16What helpeth it to geue a foole money in his hode, where as he hath no mynde to bye wy?dome?

  • 6For the laughinge of fooles is like ye crackynge of thornes vnder a pott. And yt is but a vayne thinge.

  • 3Foolishnesse maketh a man to go out of his waye, & then is his herte vnpacient agaynst the LORDE.

  • 8A wyse man wil receaue warnynge, but a foole wil sooner be smytten in the face.

  • 24Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.

  • 12For who knoweth what is good for man lyuynge, in ye dayes of his vayne life, which is but a shadowe? Or, who wil tell a man, what shal happen after him vnder the Sonne?

  • 9Yf a wyse man go to lawe with a foole (whether he deale with him frendly or roughly) he getteth no rest.

  • 15Loke what a foole taketh in honde, he thinketh it well done: but he that is wyse, wyl be couceled.

  • 3In the mouth of the foolish is the boostinge of lordshipe, but ye lippes of ye wyse wilbe warre of soch.

  • 21A foole reioyseth in foolish thinges, but a wyse man loketh well to his owne goinges.

  • 10For it shal be sene, yt soch wyse me shal dye & perishe together, as well as the ignoraunt and foolish, & leaue their goodes for other.

  • 21An vnwyse body bryngeth himselfe in to sorowe, and ye father of a foole can haue no ioye.

  • Prov 18:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6A fooles lippes are euer brawlinge, and his mouth prouoketh vnto batayll.

    7A fooles mouth is his owne destruccion, and his lippes are ye snare for his owne soule.

  • 22Thorow a seruaut yt beareth rule, thorow a foole yt hath greate riches,