Ecclesiastes 10:14-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
14 yet fools multiply words.
No one knows what is to come,
for who can tell anyone what will be?(A)
15 The toil of fools wearies them,
so they do not know even the way to town.
No One Knows What Evil Will Come
16 Woe to you, O land, whose king is a youth,[a]
and whose princes feast in the morning!
Footnotes
- 10:16 A youth: thus too young and inexperienced to govern effectively. Feast in the morning: either concluding a whole night of revelry or beginning a new round of merrymaking.
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