Ecclesiastes 10:12-18

¹²The words of a wise mouth are gracious: but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.

¹³The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly: and the end of his talk mischievous madness.

¹⁴A fool moreover multiplies words: man knows not what has been, nor what will be: who shall tell him what will come after him?

¹⁵The labor of fools will afflict them, as that of one who knows not to go to the city.

¹⁶Woe to you, O city, whose king is young, and your princes eat in the morning!

¹⁷Blessed are you, O land, whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes shall eat seasonably, for strength, and shall not be ashamed.

¹⁸By slothful neglect a building will be brought low: and by idleness of the hands the house will fall to pieces.