Ecclesiastes 10:15
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What does Ecclesiastes 10:15 mean?
The labour of the foolish wearieth everyone of
them
The labour of fools, both in speaking and doing, weary those who
have any concern with them, and themselves likewise, since all
their labour is vain and fruitless; because he knoweth not
how to go to the city;
to any city, the road to which is usually broad, and plain and
easy to be found, and yet cannot be found by the foolish man;
showing, that he that talks of abstruse things, things too high
and wonderful for him, which he affects to know, must needs be a
stranger to them, since things the most easy to be understood he
is ignorant of, and wearies himself to find; or he does not know
how to behave himself in a city, among citizens, in a civil and
polite manner. The Targum is,
``he learns not to go to the city, where wise men dwell, to learn instruction from it.''Some interpret it of the city of Jerusalem, where were the temple, sanhedrim, synagogues, schools but it may be better applied to the heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, which fools or wicked men know not the way unto, nor do they seek after it; see ( Psalms 107:7 ) ( Matthew 7:13 Matthew 7:14 ) ; so Alshech interprets it of heaven.
