Kohelet 10:1-3; Kohelet 10:12-15

Kohelet 10:1-3

1 0 Dead flies cause the perfumer’s shemen to send forth a foul odor; so doth a little sichlut outweigh chochmah and kavod.

2 A chacham’s lev is at his yamin (right hand); but a kesil’s lev is at his semol (left hand).

3 Yea also, when he that is a kesil even walketh along the derech, his sense faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a kesil.

Kohelet 10:12-15

12 The words of a chacham’s mouth are chen (gracious); but the lips of a kesil will swallow up himself.

13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is sichlut; and the end of his talk is holelot ra’ah.

14 A kesil also is full of devarim; haAdam has no da’as of what shall be, and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

15 The amal of the kesilim wearieth him, because he has no da’as of how to go to town.