Ecclesiastes 10:15

World English Bible (2000)

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 107:4 : 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
  • Ps 107:7 : 7 he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.
  • Eccl 10:3 : 3 Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
  • Eccl 10:10 : 10 If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.
  • Isa 35:8-9 : 8 A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there. 9 No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there. 10 The Yahweh's ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away."
  • Isa 44:12-17 : 12 The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house. 14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. 15 Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it. 16 He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, and says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire." 17 The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my god!"
  • Isa 47:12-13 : 12 "Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail. 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.
  • Isa 55:2 : 2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].
  • Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God. 5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 10:3
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    3 Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

  • Eccl 10:13-14
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    13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

    14 A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

  • Prov 14:7-8
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    7 Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.

    8 The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • Prov 13:16
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    16 Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21 Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

  • Prov 12:15
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    15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

  • Prov 19:2-3
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    2 It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.

    3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Ps 92:6
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    6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

  • Prov 17:16
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    16 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

  • Prov 14:24
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    24 The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

  • Eccl 6:8
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    8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

  • Prov 24:7
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    7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

  • Prov 10:23
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    23 It is a fool's pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding's pleasure.

  • Prov 15:14
    74%

    14 The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

  • Prov 18:2
    73%

    2 A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

  • Eccl 2:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

    15 Then I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

    16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

  • Prov 10:14
    73%

    14 Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

  • Prov 17:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24 Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

    25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 14:16
    72%

    16 A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.

  • Prov 23:9
    72%

    9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

  • Prov 11:29
    72%

    29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

  • Prov 14:33
    72%

    33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

  • Prov 29:9
    72%

    9 If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

  • Prov 12:23
    72%

    23 A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

  • Eccl 4:5
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    5 The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

  • Prov 26:9
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    9 Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

  • Prov 26:5
    72%

    5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • Job 17:10
    71%

    10 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

  • Eccl 2:21
    71%

    21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

  • Prov 10:8
    71%

    8 The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

  • Prov 17:21
    71%

    21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

  • Prov 29:11
    71%

    11 A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

  • Jer 5:4
    71%

    4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

  • Prov 14:18
    71%

    18 The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

  • Prov 27:22
    71%

    22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

  • Prov 9:13
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    13 The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

  • Prov 19:10
    71%

    10 Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

  • Prov 24:30
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    30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

  • Eccl 7:6
    71%

    6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

  • Prov 5:23
    71%

    23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

  • Prov 20:3
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    3 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

  • Prov 15:5
    70%

    5 A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.