Ecclesiastes 10:14

14 and fools multiply words. No one knows what is coming— who can tell someone else what will happen after them?

Ecclesiastes 10:14 in Other Translations

KJV
14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
ESV
14 A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?
NLT
14 they chatter on and on. No one really knows what is going to happen; no one can predict the future.
MSG
14 Fools talk way too much, Chattering stuff they know nothing about.
CSB
14 Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what will happen, and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?

Ecclesiastes 10:14 In-Context

12 Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are consumed by their own lips.
13 At the beginning their words are folly; at the end they are wicked madness—
14 and fools multiply words. No one knows what is coming— who can tell someone else what will happen after them?
15 The toil of fools wearies them; they do not know the way to town.
16 Woe to the land whose king was a servantand whose princes feast in the morning.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Proverbs 15:2; Ecclesiastes 5:3; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Ecclesiastes 8:7
  • 2. Ecclesiastes 9:1
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