Ecclesiastes 10:13

The fool's talk begins as foolishness and ends in wicked madness. Unchecked folly only grows worse the longer it speaks.

Cross-references · 20

• 1 Sam 25:10–11Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.
• Prov 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
• Acts 6:9–11But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
• 1 Sam 20:26–33Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”
• 2 Kgs 6:31Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”
• John 12:10But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
• 2 Kgs 6:27He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
• Luke 11:53–54As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
• Acts 5:28–33saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”
• Matt 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
• 1 Sam 22:7–8Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
• 1 Sam 22:16–18The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”
• Luke 11:38When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
• Luke 6:11But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
• Judg 14:15On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”
• 2 Sam 19:41Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”
• Luke 6:2But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”
• Matt 2:7–8Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.
• Acts 19:24–28For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,
• Acts 7:54–59Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

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