Mark Dunagan Commentaries

Ecclesiastes 10:15

"The toil of. fool so wearies him that he does not even know how to go to. city."

Much like our modern proverb, "He doesn't know enough to come in out of the rain". "The second line is evidently. proverbial tag about the kind of person who gets the simplest of things wrong----he would get lost, we might say today, even if you put him on an escalator…So the picture begins to emerge of. man who makes things needlessly difficult for himself by his stupidity" (Kidner pp. 92-93). "the advice of foolish counselors is so bad that they cannot even give simple directions. Their long-winded explanations only wear out the confused traveler. How much worse to take their counsel in affairs of state" (Garrett p. 336).

Points To Note:

1. popular word in our society has become the word "bashing". Any negative criticism seems to be labeled these days as something horrible and that we are bashing. certain group of people. Carefully note that God is bashing the fool. 2. There is. certain amount of humor in this verse, but lest we get carried away too far, we need to be reminded that what can make fools of all of us, is toiling for things that will never amount to anything (Matthew 16:26; Luke 12:20-21).

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Ecclesiastes 10:15

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