English Revised Version

Ecclesiastes 10:7-14 English Revised Version (ERV)

7. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

8. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall bite him.

9. Whoso heweth out stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.

10. If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

11. If the serpent bite before it be charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

12. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

13. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

14. A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?