Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The labour of the foolish is grievous unto them, while they know not how to go in to the city.
New American Standard Bible
The toil of
King James Version
The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Holman Bible
for they don’t know how to go to the city.
International Standard Version
The work of a fool so wears him out that he can't even find his way to town.
A Conservative Version
The labor of fools wearies every one of them, for he knows not how to go to the city.
American Standard Version
The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Amplified
The labor of a fool so wearies him [because he is ignorant] that he does not even know how to go to a city.
Bible in Basic English
The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.
Darby Translation
The labour of fools wearieth them, because they know not how to go to the city.
Julia Smith Translation
The labor of the foolish will weary them, because he knew not to go to the city.
King James 2000
The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he knows not how to go to the city.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The fool is so worn out by a hard day's work {he cannot even find his way home at night}.
Modern King James verseion
The labor of fools wearies him, because he does not know how to go to the city.
NET Bible
The toil of a stupid fool wears him out, because he does not even know the way to the city.
New Heart English Bible
The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.
The Emphasized Bible
The toil of dullards, shall weary a man, that he knoweth not how to go into the city.
Webster
The labor of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
World English Bible
The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.
Youngs Literal Translation
The labour of the foolish wearieth him, In that he hath not known to go unto the city.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 10:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Burden Of Folly
14 A fool is so full of words, that a man cannot tell what end he shall make. Who will then warn him of it that shall follow after him? 15 The labour of the foolish is grievous unto them, while they know not how to go in to the city. 16 Woe be unto thee, O thou realm and land, whose king is but a child, and whose princes are early at their banquets.
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Cross References
Psalm 107:4
They went astray in the wilderness in an untrodden way, and found no city to dwell in.
Psalm 107:7
He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to the city where they dwelt.
Ecclesiastes 10:3
A doting fool thinketh, that every man doth as foolishly as himself.
Ecclesiastes 10:10
When an iron is blunt, and the point not sharpened, it must be whet again, and that with might. Even so doth wisdom follow diligence.
Isaiah 35:8-10
There shall be foot paths and common streets: this shall be called the holy way. No unclean person shall go through it, for the LORD himself shall go with them that way, and the ignorant shall not err.
Isaiah 44:12-17
The smith taketh iron, and tempereth it with hot coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and maketh it with all the strength of his arms: yea, sometimes he is faint for very hunger, and so thirsty, that he hath no more power.
Isaiah 47:12-13
Now go to thy conjurers, and to the multitude of thy witches, whom thou hast been acquainted with from thy youth, if they may help thee, or strengthen thee.
Isaiah 55:2
Wherefore do ye lay out your money, for the thing that feedeth not, and spend your labour about the thing that satisfieth you not? But hearken rather unto me, and ye shall eat of the best, and your soul shall have her pleasure in plenteousness.
Isaiah 57:1
But in the mean season the righteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart. Good godly people are taken away, and no man considereth it. Namely, that the righteous is conveyed away through the wicked,
Jeremiah 50:4-5
In those days, and at that time, sayeth the LORD, the children of Israel shall come; they and the children of Judah, weeping and making haste, and shall seek the LORD their God.
Habakkuk 2:6
But shall not all these take up a proverb against him, and mock him with a byword, and say, "Woe unto him that heapeth up other men's goods: How long will he lade himself with thick clay?"
Matthew 11:28-30
Come unto me all ye that labor, and are laden, and I will ease you.