King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 10:14
“A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 10
12
The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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The beginning of the words of his mouth [is] foolishness: and the end of his talk [is] mischievous madness.
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A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
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The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
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Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
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