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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 10:13 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ec 10:13 |
Strong Concordance |
The beginning [08462] of the words [01697] of his mouth [06310] is foolishness [05531]: and the end [0319] of his talk [06310] is mischievous [07451] madness [01948]. |
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King James |
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| 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. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| "The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his mouth is mischievous madness." From folly (absurdity) the words which are heard from a fool's mouth rise to madness, which is compounded of presumption, wantonness, and frenzy, and which, in itself a symptom of mental and moral depravity, brings as its consequence destruction on himself (Pro 18:17). The adjective רעה is as in רע חלי, which interchanges with רעה חו Ecc 6:2; Ecc 5:12, etc. The end of his mouth, viz., of his speaking, is = the end of the words of his mouth, viz., the end which they at last reach. Instead of holeloth, there is here, with the adj. following, holeluth, with the usual ending of abstracta. The following proverb says how the words of the fool move between these two poles of folly and wicked madness: he speaks much, and as if he knew all things. |
12 The words [01697] of a wise man's [02450] mouth [06310] are gracious [02580]; but the lips [08193] of a fool [03684] will swallow up [01104] himself.
12 The sleep [08142] of a labouring man [05647] is sweet [04966], whether he eat [0398] little [04592] or much [07235]: but the abundance [07647] of the rich [06223] will not suffer [03240] him to sleep [03462].
2 A man [0376] to whom God [0430] hath given [05414] riches [06239], wealth [05233], and honour [03519], so that he wanteth [02638] nothing for his soul [05315] of all that he desireth [0183], yet God [0430] giveth him not power [07980] to eat [0398] thereof, but a stranger [0376] [05237] eateth [0398] it: this is vanity [01892], and it is an evil [07451] disease [02483].
17 He that is first [07223] in his own cause [07379] seemeth just [06662]; but his neighbour [07453] cometh [0935] [0935] and searcheth [02713] him.