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Ecclesiastes 10:14
Ecclesiastes 10:14 is verse 14 of Ecclesiastes chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
King James Version
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
World English Bible
A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
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Ecclesiastes 10:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.
13 The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.
14 Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
15 The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
16 Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ecclesiastes 5:3As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.
Proverbs 10:19When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
Proverbs 15:2The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool spouts folly.
Job 34:37For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Ecclesiastes 3:22I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8:7Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
James 4:13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.