Ecclesiastes 10
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
dead flies or the flies of death the ointment
Exodus 30:34,35 And the LORD said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte, and …
a little
2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said …
Nehemiah 6:13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, …
Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many …
Matthew 5:13-16 You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his flavor, …
Galatians 2:12-14 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: …
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
wise
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there …
Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly …
Luke 14:28-32 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first, …
but
Ecclesiastes 10:10,14 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put …
Proverbs 17:16 Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing …
Luke 12:18-20 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build …
Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
wisdom
Ecclesiastes 5:3 For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's …
Proverbs 13:16 Every prudent man deals with knowledge: but a fool lays open his folly.
Proverbs 18:2,6 A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover …
1 Peter 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same …
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
leave
Ecclesiastes 8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; …
for
1 Samuel 25:24 And fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity …
Proverbs 25:15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
an evil
Ecclesiastes 4:7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches …
Ecclesiastes 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that …
as an
Ecclesiastes 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness …
Ecclesiastes 4:1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under …
Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
folly
Judges 9:14-20 Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come you, and reign over us…
1 Kings 12:13,14 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's …
Esther 3:1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha …
Psalm 12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Proverbs 28:12,28 When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the …
dignity
rich
James 2:3-5 And you have respect to him that wears the gay clothing, and say …
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Proverbs 19:10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have …
Proverbs 30:22 For a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
that
Judges 9:5,53-57 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers …
2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled …
2 Samuel 18:15 And ten young men that bore Joab's armor compassed about and smote …
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. …
Psalm 7:15,16 He made a pit, and dig it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made…
Psalm 9:15,16 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which …
Proverbs 26:27 Whoever digs a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolls a stone, …
a serpent
Amos 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into …
Amos 9:3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search …
Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
wisdom
Ecclesiastes 10:15 The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he knows …
Ecclesiastes 9:15-17 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered …
Genesis 41:33-39 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set …
Exodus 18:19-23 Listen now to my voice, I will give you counsel, and God shall be …
1 Kings 8:9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which …
1 Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding …
2 Chronicles 23:4-11 This is the thing that you shall do; A third part of you entering …
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the middle of wolves: be you …
Acts 6:1-9 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, …
Acts 15:2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation …
Romans 16:19 For your obedience is come abroad to all men. I am glad therefore …
1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, be not children in understanding: however, in malice be …
Ephesians 5:15-17 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise…
Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all …
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
the serpent
Psalm 58:4,5 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf …
Jeremiah 8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which …
babbler
Psalm 52:2 The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot …
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love …
James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among …
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
words
Job 4:3,4 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands…
Job 16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips …
Psalm 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
Psalm 40:9,10 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have …
Psalm 71:15-18 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all …
Proverbs 10:13,20,21,31,32 In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a …
Proverbs 12:13,14,18 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just …
Proverbs 15:2,23 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools …
Proverbs 16:21-24 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the …
Proverbs 22:17,18 Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your …
Proverbs 25:11,12 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver…
Proverbs 31:26 She opens her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Matthew 12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things…
Luke 4:22 And all bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which …
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that …
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you …
gracious
2 Samuel 1:16 And David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth …
1 Kings 20:40-42 And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the …
Psalm 64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall on themselves: all that …
Psalm 140:9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief …
Proverbs 10:8,10,14 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall…
Proverbs 18:6-8 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for strokes…
Proverbs 19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies …
Proverbs 26:9 As a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in …
Luke 19:22 And he said to him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked …
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
beginning
Judges 14:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's …
1 Samuel 20:26-33 Nevertheless Saul spoke not any thing that day: for he thought, Something …
1 Samuel 22:7,8,16-18 Then Saul said to his servants that stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites…
1 Samuel 25:10,11 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and …
2 Samuel 19:41-43 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to …
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
2 Kings 6:27,31 And he said, If the LORD do not help you, from where shall I help …
Proverbs 29:9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, …
Matthew 2:7,8,16 Then Herod, when he had privately called the wise men, inquired of …
Luke 6:2,11 And certain of the Pharisees said to them, Why do you that which …
Luke 11:38,53,54 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed …
John 12:10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
Acts 5:28-33 Saying, Did not we straightly command you that you should not teach …
Acts 6:9-11 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue …
Acts 7:54-59 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they …
Acts 19:24-28 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver …
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
fool
Ecclesiastes 5:3 For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's …
Proverbs 10:19 In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains …
Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools …
is full of words
Job 34:37 For he adds rebellion to his sin, he clapps his hands among us, and …
Job 35:16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without …
a man
Ecclesiastes 3:22 Why I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should …
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of …
Ecclesiastes 8:7 For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
James 4:13,14 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such …
The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
labour
Ecclesiastes 10:3,10 Yes also, when he that is a fool walks by the way, his wisdom fails …
Isaiah 44:12-17 The smith with the tongs both works in the coals, and fashions it …
Isaiah 47:12,13 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your …
Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor …
Isaiah 57:1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful …
Habakkuk 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting …
Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest…
because
Psalm 107:4,7 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no …
Isaiah 35:8-10 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called …
Jeremiah 50:4,5 In those days, and in that time, said the LORD, the children of Israel …
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
when
2 Chronicles 13:7 And there are gathered to him vain men, the children of Belial, and …
2 Chronicles 33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned …
2 Chronicles 36:2,5,9,11 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and …
Isaiah 3:4,5,12 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them…
and
Proverbs 20:1,2 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived …
Isaiah 5:11,12 Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow …
Isaiah 28:7,8 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are …
Hosea 7:5-7 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles …
in the
Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David, thus said the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, …
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
when
Ecclesiastes 10:6,7 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place…
Proverbs 28:2,3 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof…
Jeremiah 30:21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall …
and thy
Proverbs 31:4,5 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; …
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall …
Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down …
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall …
Proverbs 21:25 The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labor.
Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness …
Proverbs 24:30,31 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man …
Hebrews 6:11 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to …
2 Peter 1:5-10 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; …
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
feast
Ecclesiastes 2:1,2 I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove you with mirth, therefore …
Ecclesiastes 7:2-6 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house …
Genesis 43:34 And he took and sent messes to them from before him: but Benjamin's …
Daniel 5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, …
1 Peter 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will …
and wine
Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a …
Psalm 104:15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face …
Isaiah 24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the …
1 Samuel 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, …
2 Samuel 13:28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when …
Luke 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for …
Ephesians 5:18,19 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit…
maketh merry or money which would have answered every good purpose, and served for every emergency, is too often spent in feastings and revellings
Ecclesiastes 7:11,12 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to …
1 Chronicles 21:24 And king David said to Ornan, No; but I will truly buy it for the …
1 Chronicles 29:2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the …
2 Chronicles 24:11-14 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought to the …
Ezra 1:6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels …
Ezra 7:15-18 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors …
Nehemiah 5:8 And I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers …
Psalm 112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures …
Isaiah 23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it …
Philippians 4:15-19 Now you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, …
1 Timothy 6:17-19 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, …
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
curse
Exodus 22:28 You shall not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of your people.
Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it …
Acts 23:5 Then said Paul, I knew not, brothers, that he was the high priest: …
thought
Ecclesiastes 7:21,22 Also take no heed to all words that are spoken; lest you hear your …
Luke 19:40 And he answered and said to them, I tell you that, if these should …
in thy bedchamber
Luke 10:40 But Martha was encumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord…
Luke 12:2,3 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither …
