Ecclesiastes10:13

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Translation

The words of his mouth begin with folly and the end of his mouth is grievous

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madness.

Paraphrase

the words that a fool speaks are based on an unhealthy, wrong-headed foundation, and the results of his words are evil madness.

Footnotes

1: “Grievous”

This is the word for “sin, evil, wicked,” but it also means “displeasing, unpleasant, bad, malignant, causing injury, misery, calamity, grievous wrong.”