Ecclesiastes 10:12-20

¹²The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

¹³The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is grievous madness.

¹⁴A fool also multiplieth words; yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

¹⁵The labour of fools wearieth every one of them, for he knoweth not how to go to the city.

¹⁶Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a boy, and thy princes feast in the morning!

¹⁷Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a free man, and thy princes eat in due season, in strength, and not in drunkenness!

¹⁸By slothfulness the rafters sink in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.

¹⁹A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things.

²⁰Curse 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.