Ecclesiastes 10:15

Coverdale Bible (1535)

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

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  • Ps 107:4 : 4 They wente astraye in the wildernesse in an vntroden waye, & founde no cite to dwell in.
  • Ps 107:7 : 7 He led the forth by ye right waie, yt they might go to ye cite where they dwelt.
  • Eccl 10:3 : 3 A dotinge foole thinketh, yt euery ma doth as foolishly as himself.
  • Eccl 10:10 : 10 When an yron is blont, and ye poynt not sharpened, it must be whett againe, and that with might: Euen so doth wi?dome folowe diligence.
  • Isa 35:8-9 : 8 There shalbe footpathes & comon stretes, this shalbe called the holywaye. No vnclene person shal go thorow it, for the LORDE himself shal go with the that waye, and the ignoraut shal not erre. 9 There shalbe no lyon, and no rauyshinge beast shall come therin nor be there, but men shal go there fre and safe. 10 And the redemed of the LORDE shal conuerte, and come to Sion with thankesgeuinge. Euerlastinge ioye shal they haue, pleasure & gladnesse shalbe amoge them, And as for all sorow and heuynes, it shal vanish awaye.
  • Isa 44:12-17 : 12 The smyth taketh yron, and tempreth it with hote coles, and fashioneth it with hammers, & maketh it wt all the strength of his armes: Yee somtyme he is faynt for very hunger, and so thurstie, that he hath no more power. 13 The carpenter (or ymage caruer) taketh me the tymbre, and spredeth forth his lyne: he marketh it with some coloure: he playneth it, he ruleth it, ad squareth it, and maketh it after the ymage of a man, and acordinge to the bewtie of a man: that it maye stonde in the temple. 14 Morouer, he goeth out to hewe downe Cedre trees: He bringeth home Elmes and okes, and other tymbre of the wodd. Or els the Fyrre trees which he planted himself, ad soch as the rayne hath swelled, 15 which wodde serueth for me to burne. Of this he taketh and warmeth himself withall: he maketh a fyre of it to bake bred. And after warde maketh a god there of, to honoure it: and an Idol, to knele before it. 16 One pece he burneth in the fyre, with another he rosteth flesh, that he maye eate roste his bely full: with the thirde he warmeth himself, and saieth: Aha: I am well warmed, I haue bene at the fyre. 17 And of the residue, he maketh him a god, and an Idol for himself. He kneleth before it, he worshippeth it, he prayeth vnto it, and sayeth: delyuer me, for thou art my god.
  • Isa 47:12-13 : 12 Now go to thy coniurers, and to the multitude of thy witches, (whom thou hast bene acquanted withal from thi youth) yf they maye helpe the, or strengthe the. 13 Thou hast hither to had many councels of them, so let the heauengasers & the beholders of starres, come on now and delyuer the: yee and let the shewe, when these new thinges shall come vpon the.
  • Isa 55:2 : 2 Wherfore do ye laye out yor moneye, for the thinge yt fedeth not, and spende youre laboure aboute the thinge that satisfieth you not? But herke rather vnto me, ad ye shal eate of the best, & youre soule shal haue hir pleasure in pleteousnes.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 Bvt in the meane season ye righteous perisheth, & no ma regardeth it in his hert. Good godly people are taken awaye. & no ma cosidreth it. Namely: that the righteous is conuayed awaye thorow ye wicked:
  • Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those dayes & at that tyme (saieth the LORDE) the childre of Israel shall come, they & the children of Iuda, wepinge & makinge haist, & shal seke the LORDE their God. 5 They shall axe the waye to Sion, thyther shall they turne their faces, & come, and hange vpon the, in a couenaunt that neuer shal be broken.
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 But shall not all these take vp a prouerbe agaynst him, and mocke him with a byworde, and saye: Wo vnto him that heapeth vp other mens goodes? How longe wil he lade himself with thicke claye?
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come vnto me all ye that laboure and are laden, and I wil ease you. 29 Take my yock vpon you, and lerne of me, for I am meke and lowlye of hert, & ye shal fynde rest vnto youre soules: 30 for my yock is easy, and my burden is light.

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  • Eccl 10:3
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    3 A dotinge foole thinketh, yt euery ma doth as foolishly as himself.

  • Eccl 10:13-14
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    13 The begynnynge of his talkynge is foolishnes, and the last worde of his mouth is greate madnesse.

    14 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?

  • Prov 14:7-8
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    7 Se yt thou medle not with a foole, & do as though thou haddest no knowlege.

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

  • Prov 13:16
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    16 A wyse man doth all thinges with discrecion, but a foole wil declare his foly.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21 A foole reioyseth in foolish thinges, but a wyse man loketh well to his owne goinges.

  • Prov 12:15
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    15 Loke what a foole taketh in honde, he thinketh it well done: but he that is wyse, wyl be couceled.

  • Prov 19:2-3
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    2 Where no discrecion is, there the soule is not well: and who so is swifte on fote, stombleth hastely.

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

  • Ps 92:6
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    6 An vnwyse man wil not knowe this, & a foole wil not vnderstode it.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16 What helpeth it to geue a foole money in his hode, where as he hath no mynde to bye wy?dome?

  • Prov 14:24
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    24 Riches are an ornament vnto the wyse, but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse.

  • Eccl 6:8
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    8 For what hath the wyse more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore, that he knoweth to walke before the lyuynge?

  • Prov 24:7
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    7 Wy?dome is an hie thinge, yee eue to ye foole, for he darre not ope his mouth in ye gate.

  • Prov 10:23
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    23 A foole doth wickedly & maketh but a sporte of it: neuertheles it is wysdome for a man to bewarre of soch.

  • Prov 15:14
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    14 A wyse herte wil seke after knowlege, but ye mouth of fooles medleth with foolishnesse.

  • Prov 18:2
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    2 A foole hath no delyte in vnderstodinge, but only in those thinges wherin his herte reioyseth.

  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    14 For 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.

    15 Then 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.

    16 For 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.

  • Prov 10:14
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    14 Wyse me laye vp knowlege, but ye mouth of ye foolish is nye destruccio.

  • Prov 17:24-25
    2 verses
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    24 Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.

    25 An vndiscrete sonne is a grefe vnto his father, and heuynesse vnto his mother yt bare him.

  • Prov 14:16
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    16 A wyse man, feareth, and departeth from euell, but a foole goeth on presumptuously.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9 Tel nothinge in to ye eares of a foole, for he wyl despyse the wy?dome of thy wordes.

  • Prov 11:29
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    29 Who so maketh disquyetnesse in his owne house, he shal haue wynde for his heretage, and the foole shal be seruaunt to the wyse.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33 Wy?dome resteth in the herte of him that hath vnderstondinge, and he wyll teach them that are vnlerned.

  • Prov 29:9
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    9 Yf a wyse man go to lawe with a foole (whether he deale with him frendly or roughly) he getteth no rest.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23 He that hath vnderstodinge, can hyde his wysdome: but an vndiscrete herte telleth out his foolishnesse.

  • Eccl 4:5
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    5 The foole foldeth his handes together, & eateth vp his owne flesh.

  • Prov 26:9
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    9 A parable in a fooles mouth, is like a thorne yt pricketh a droncken man in ye hande.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19 for 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?

  • Prov 26:5
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    5 but make ye foole an answere to his foolishnesse, lest he be wyse in his owne coceate.

  • Job 17:10
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    10 As for you, turne you, & get you hence, for I can not se one wyse ma amonge you.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21 for so moch as a man shulde weery him self with wy?dome, with vnderstondinge and opportunite, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another, yt neuer swett for them. This is also a vayne thinge and a greate misery.

  • Prov 10:8
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    8 A wyse man wil receaue warnynge, but a foole wil sooner be smytten in the face.

  • Prov 17:21
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    21 An vnwyse body bryngeth himselfe in to sorowe, and ye father of a foole can haue no ioye.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11 A foole poureth out his sprete alltogether, but a wyse man kepeth it in till afterwarde.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4 Therfore I thought in my self: peraduenture they are so symple and folish, that they vnderstonde nothinge of the LORDES waye, and iudgmentes of oure God.

  • Prov 14:18
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    18 The ignoraut haue foolishnes in possessio, but the wyse are crowned with knowlege.

  • Prov 27:22
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    22 Though thou shuldest bray a foole wt a pestell in a morter like otemeell, yet wil not his foolishnesse go from him.

  • Prov 9:13
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    13 A foolish restlesse woman, full of wordes, and soch one as hath no knowlege,

  • Ps 94:8
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    8 Take hede, ye vnwise amonge the people: o ye fooles, when wil ye vnderstonde?

  • Prov 19:10
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    10 Delicate ease becometh not a foole, moch more vnsemely is it, a bonde man to haue ye rule of prynces.

  • Prov 24:30
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    30 I wente by ye felde of ye slouthfull, & by ye vynyarde of the foolish ma.

  • Eccl 7:6
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    6 For the laughinge of fooles is like ye crackynge of thornes vnder a pott. And yt is but a vayne thinge.

  • Prov 5:23
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    23 Because he wolde not be refourmed, he shal dye: and for his greate foolishnesse he shal be destroyed.

  • Prov 20:3
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    3 It is a mans honoure to kepe himself from strife, but they yt haue pleasure in braulinge, are fooles eueryone.

  • Prov 15:5
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    5 A foole despyseth his fathers correccion, but he yt taketh hede whan he is reproued, shal haue ye more vnderstodinge.