Chapter 10
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Dead flies
Heb. Flies of death. the ointment
a little
2 Chronicles 19.2 Nehemiah 6.13 13.26 Matthew 5.13-16 Galatians 2.12-14
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
wise
9.10 Proverbs 14.8 Luke 14.28-32
but
10,14 Proverbs 17.16 Luke 12.18-20
Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
wisdom
Heb. heart. and he.
5.3 Proverbs 13.16 18.2,6 1 Peter 4.4
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
leave
for
1 Samuel 25.24-44 Proverbs 25.15
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
an evil
as an
from
Heb. from before.
Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
Folly
Judges 9.14-20 1 Kings 12.13,14 Esther 3.1 Psalms 12.8 Proverbs 28.12,28
dignity
Heb. heights. the rich.
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
that
Judges 9.5,53-57 2 Samuel 17.23 18.15 Esther 7.10 Psalms 7.15,16 9.15,16 Proverbs 26.27
a serpent
If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
wisdom
15 9.15-17 Genesis 41.33-39 Exodus 18.19-23 1 Kings 3.9 1 Chronicles 12.32 2 Chronicles 23.4-11 Matthew 10.16 Acts 6.1-9 15.2-21 Romans 16.19 1 Corinthians 14.20 Ephesians 5.15-17 Colossians 4.5 James 1.5
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
the serpent
a babbler
Heb. the master of the tongue.
Psalms 52.2 64.3 Proverbs 18.21 James 3.6
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
words
Job 4.3,4 16.5 Psalms 37.30 40.9,10 71.15-18 Proverbs 10.13,20,21,31,32 Proverbs 12.13,14,18 15.2,23 16.21-24 22.17,18 25.11,12 31.26 Matthew 12.35 Luke 4.22 Ephesians 4.29 Colossians 4.6
gracious
Heb. grace. but.
2 Samuel 1.16 1 Kings 20.40-42 Psalms 64.8 140.9 Proverbs 10.8,10,14 18.6-8 19.5 Proverbs 26.9 Luke 19.22
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
beginning
Judges 14.15 1 Samuel 20.26-33 22.7,8,16-18 25.10,11 2 Samuel 19.41-43 2 Samuel 20.1 2 Kings 6.27,31 Proverbs 29.9 Matthew 2.7,8,16 Luke 6.2,11 Luke 11.38,53,54 John 12.10 Acts 5.28-33 6.9-11 7.54-59 19.24-28
talk
Heb. mouth.
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
fool
is full of words
Heb. multiplieth words.
a man
The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
labour
3,10 Isaiah 44.12-17 47.12,13 55.2 57.1 Habakkuk 2.6 Matthew 11.28-30
because
Psalms 107.4,7 Isaiah 35.8-10 Jeremiah 50.4,5
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
when
2 Chronicles 13.7 33.1-20 36.2,5,9,11 Isaiah 3.4,5,12
and
Proverbs 20.1,2 Isaiah 5.11,12 28.7,8 Hosea 7.5-7
in the
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
when
6,7 Proverbs 28.2,3 Jeremiah 30.21
and thy
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Proverbs 12.24 14.1 20.4 21.25 23.21 24.30,31 Hebrews 6.11 2 Peter 1.5-10
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
feast
2.1,2 7.2-6 Genesis 43.34 Daniel 5.1-12 1 Peter 4.3
and wine
9.7 Psalms 104.15 Isaiah 24.11 1 Samuel 25.36 2 Samuel 13.28 Luke 12.19 Ephesians 5.18,19
maketh merry
Heb. maketh glad the life. but. Money which would have answered every good purpose, and served for every emergency, is too often spent in feastings and revellings.
7.11,12 1 Chronicles 21.24 29.2-9 2 Chronicles 24.11-14 Ezra 1.6 7.15-18 Nehemiah 5.8 Psalms 112.9 Isaiah 23.18 Matthew 17.27 19.21 Luke 8.3 16.9 Acts 2.45 11.29 Philippians 4.15-19 1 Timothy 6.17-19
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Curse
Exodus 22.28 Isaiah 8.21 Acts 23.5
thought
or, conscience.