Ecclesiastes 10:3
Good News Translation
Their stupidity will be evident even to strangers they meet along the way; they let everyone know that they are fools.

New Revised Standard Version
Even when fools walk on the road, they lack sense, and show to everyone that they are fools.

Contemporary English Version
Fools show their stupidity by the way they live; it's easy to see they have no sense.

New American Bible
Even when walking in the street the fool, lacking understanding, calls everyone a fool.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools.

wisdom

Ecclesiastes 5:3 Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.

Proverbs 13:16 The prudent man doth all things with counsel: but he that is a fool, layeth open his folly.

Proverbs 18:2,6 A fool receiveth not the words of prudence: unless thou say those things which are in his heart. . . .

1 Peter 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you.

Context
Wisdom and Folly
2The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a fool is in his left hand. 3Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools.4If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.…
Cross References
Proverbs 13:16
The prudent man doth all things with counsel: but he that is a fool, layeth open his folly.

Proverbs 18:2
A fool receiveth not the words of prudence: unless thou say those things which are in his heart.

Ecclesiastes 10:2
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