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12 (10:11) The wordes out of a wyse mans mouth are gratious: but the lippes of a foole wyll destroy him selfe. 13 (10:12) The beginning of his talking is foolishnesse: & the last worde of his mouth is starke madnesse. 14 (10:13) A foole is full of wordes, and a man can not tell what shall come to passe: who wyll then warne hym of it that shall folowe after hym? 15 (10:14) The labour of the foolishe is greeuous vnto them, whyle they know not howe to go into the citie. 16 (10:15) Wo be vnto thee O thou lande, whose kyng is but a chylde, and whose princes are early at their bankettes. 17 (10:16) But well is thee O thou lande, whose kyng is come of nobles, and whose princes eate in due season for necessitie, and not for lust. 18 (10:17) Thorowe slouthfulnesse the balkes fall downe, and thorowe idle handes it rayneth in at the house. 19 (10:18) Meate maketh men to laugh, and wine maketh them merie: but vnto money are all thinges obedient. 20 (10:19) Wishe the king no euil in thy thought, and speake no hurt of the riche in thy priuie chaumber: for a byrde of the ayre shall betray thy voyce, and with her fethers shall she bewray thy wordes. Ecclesiastes 10:12-20, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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