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Ecclesiastes 10:6-15 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

6. folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

7. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

8. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall bite him.

9. Whoso heweth out stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.

10. If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

11. If the serpent bite before it be charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

12. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

13. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

14. A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

15. The labour of fools wearieth every one of them, for he knoweth not how to go to the city.

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