Ecclesiastes 10:11-15 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

11. If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

12. The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a fool shall throw him down headlong.

13. The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a mischievous error.

14. A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

15. The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not bow to go to the city.

Ecclesiastes 10