Ecclésiaste 10:14

14 L'insensé multiplie les paroles; toutefois l'homme ne sait ce qui arrivera; et qui lui annoncera ce qui sera après lui

Ecclésiaste 10:14 Meaning and Commentary

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool also is full of words
Or, "multiplies words" ^F25. Is very talkative, says the same thing over and over again; uses an abundance of waste words, that have no meaning in them; utters every thing that comes uppermost, without any order or judgment; affects to talk on every subject, whether he knows anything of it or not; and will engross all the conversation to himself, though of all in company the most unfit for it; a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him who can
tell him?
what the fool is talking of; what is the drift of his discourse; or where it will end, and what he will bring it to, it is so noisy, confused, and incoherent: or no man can tell future things, or what will come to pass; nor can any man inform another of future events; and yet a fool boasts and brags of what he shall do, and what he shall have, as if he was master of the future, and knew for certain what would come to pass, which the wisest of men do not.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (hbry) "multiplicabit", Pagninus, Montanus; "multiplicat", Vatablus, Mercerus, Drusius, Amama, Gejerus, Rambachius, Cocceius.

Ecclésiaste 10:14 In-Context

12 Les paroles de la bouche du sage sont pleines de grâce; mais les lèvres du fou l'engloutissent.

13 Le commencement des paroles de sa bouche est une folie, et la fin de son discours une pernicieuse sottise.

14 L'insensé multiplie les paroles; toutefois l'homme ne sait ce qui arrivera; et qui lui annoncera ce qui sera après lui

15 Le travail des insensés les lasse, parce qu'ils ne savent pas aller à la ville.

16 Malheur à toi, pays, dont le roi est un enfant, et dont les princes mangent dès le matin!