The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 10:14Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
Treasury of Scripture
The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he knows not how to go to the city.
labour
Ecclesiastes 10:3,10
Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool…
Isaiah 44:12-17
The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint…
Isaiah 47:12,13
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail…
because
Psalm 107:4,7
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in…
Isaiah 35:8-10
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein…
Jeremiah 50:4,5
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God…
