Ecclesiastes 10:1
“Dead flies cause the oyntment of the Apothecarie to send foorth a stinking sauour: so doeth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisedome and honour.”
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Ecclesiastes 10:1 Context
1Dead flies cause the oyntment of the Apothecarie to send foorth a stinking sauour: so doeth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisedome and honour. 2A wise mans heart is at his right hand: but a fooles heart at his left. 3Yea also when hee that is a foole walketh by the way, his wisedome faileth him, and hee saith to euery one that he is a foole.
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Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: [so doth] a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom [and] honour.
- King James Version
Dead flies make a perfumer's oil stink, so a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom {and} honor.
- New American Standard Version (1995)