New American Standard Bible

Ecclesiastes 10:13-17 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

13. the beginning of his talking is folly and the end of it is wicked madness.

14. Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

15. The toil of a fool so wearies him that he does not even know how to go to a city.

16. Woe to you, O land, whose king is a lad and whose princes feast in the morning.

17. Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of nobility and whose princes eat at the appropriate time-for strength and not for drunkenness.