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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 10:13 - King James

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Ec 10:13 King James The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Illustrating the folly and injuriousness of the fool's words; last clause of Ecc 10:12.
 
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12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
17 He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.