Ecclesiastes 10:2

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Ecclesiastes 10:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

2 A wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.

3 Even as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool.

4 If the ruler’s temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools deceives them.

Luke 14:28

Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?

Luke 14:29

Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,

Luke 14:30

saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’

Luke 14:31

Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

Luke 14:32

And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

Proverbs 17:16

Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?

Luke 12:18

Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.

Luke 12:19

Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’