Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiastes 10:12-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

12. The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a fool shall throw him down headlong.

13. The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a mischievous error.

14. A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

15. The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not bow to go to the city.

16. Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.