Ecclesiastes 10:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Yea 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.

Ecclesiastes 10:3 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 18:2
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Proverbs 13:16
Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
Proverbs 18:6
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
1 Peter 4:4
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

In these verses Solomon shows, I. What great need wise men have to take heed of being guilty of any instance of folly; for a little folly is a great blemish to him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour, and is as hurtful to his good name as dead flies are to a sweet perfume, not only spoiling the sweetness of it, but making it to send forth a stinking savour. Note, 1. True wisdom is true hon…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. by the way--in his ordinary course; in his simplest acts (Pr 6:12-14). That he “saith,” virtually, “that he” himself, &c. [Septuagint]. But Vulgate, “He thinks that every one (else whom he meets) is a fool.”