Ecclesiastes 10:15

Ecclesiastes chapter 10 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city.

King James Version · 1611

The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

American Standard Version · 1901

The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city.

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

v.15This passage

v.16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Psalms 107:4
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.
Isaiah 35:8
And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for the redeemed: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err therein.
Psalms 107:7
He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation.
Jeremiah 50:4
In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Jehovah their God.
Ecclesiastes 10:3
Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
Isaiah 55:2
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.