15 The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
Ecclesiastes 10:15
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Ecclesiastes 10:2–4
2 A wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. 3 Even as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool. 4 If the ruler’s temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness…
Sirach 19:10–12
10 Have you heard something? Let it die with you. Be brave: it will not make you burst! (WEB) 11 A fool will travail in pain with a word, as a woman in labor with a child. (WEB) 12 As an arrow that sticks in the flesh of the thigh, so is gossip in a fool. (WEB)
Psalms 92:5–7
5 How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts! 6 A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand, 7 that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
Sirach 11:10–12
10 My son, don’t be busy about many matters; for if you meddle much, you will not be unpunished. If you pursue, you will not overtake, and you will not escape by fleeing. (WEB) 11 There is one who toils, labors, and hurries, and is even more behind. (WEB) 12 There is one who is slu… (WEB)
Proverbs 15:20–22
20 A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother. 21 Folly is joy to one who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding walks a straight path. 22 Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 17:20–22
20 The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble. 21 A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy. 22 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
2 Esdras 16:44–46
44 those who marry, as those who will have no children, and those who don’t marry, as the widowed. (WEB) 45 Because of this, those who labor, labor in vain; (WEB) 46 for foreigners will reap their fruits, plunder their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captive,… (WEB)
Proverbs 18:1–3
1 He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment. 2 A fool does not delight in understanding, but only in airing his opinions. 3 With a wicked man comes contempt as well, and shame is accompanied by disgrace.
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