“Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 10 contains 20 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.