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| The Book of Ecclesiastes 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:1 | Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:2 | The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a fool is in his left hand. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:3 | Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas be himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:4 | If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:5 | There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the face of the prince: | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:6 | A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:7 | I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:8 | He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:9 | He that removeth stones, shall be hurt by them: and he that cutteth trees, shall be wounded by them. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:10 | If the iron be blunt, and be not as before, but be made blunt, with much labour it shall be sharpened: and after industry shall follow wisdom. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:11 | If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:12 | The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a fool shall throw him down headlong. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:13 | The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a mischievous error. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:14 | A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him? | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:15 | The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not bow to go to the city. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:16 | Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:17 | Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:18 | By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through the weakness of hands, the house shall drop through. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:19 | For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast: and all things obey money. | |||||||||||||||
| Ecclesiastes 10:20 | Detract not the king, no not in thy thought; and speak not evil of the rich man in thy private chamber: because even the birds of the air will carry thy voice, and he that hath wings will tell what thou hast said. | |||||||||||||||
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