{"id":"ECC.10.1","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":1,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:1","text":"Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor."}
{"id":"ECC.10.2","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":2,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:2","text":"A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left."}
{"id":"ECC.10.3","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":3,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:3","text":"Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool."}
{"id":"ECC.10.4","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":4,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:4","text":"If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for gentleness allayeth great offences."}
{"id":"ECC.10.5","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":5,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:5","text":"There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:"}
{"id":"ECC.10.6","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":6,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:6","text":"folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place."}
{"id":"ECC.10.7","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":7,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:7","text":"I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking like servants upon the earth."}
{"id":"ECC.10.8","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":8,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:8","text":"He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him."}
{"id":"ECC.10.9","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":9,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:9","text":"Whoso heweth out stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby."}
{"id":"ECC.10.10","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":10,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:10","text":"If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct."}
{"id":"ECC.10.11","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":11,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:11","text":"If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer."}
{"id":"ECC.10.12","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":12,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:12","text":"The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself."}
{"id":"ECC.10.13","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":13,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:13","text":"The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness."}
{"id":"ECC.10.14","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":14,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:14","text":"A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?"}
{"id":"ECC.10.15","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":15,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:15","text":"The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city."}
{"id":"ECC.10.16","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":16,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:16","text":"Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!"}
{"id":"ECC.10.17","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":17,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:17","text":"Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!"}
{"id":"ECC.10.18","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":18,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:18","text":"By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh."}
{"id":"ECC.10.19","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":19,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:19","text":"A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things."}
{"id":"ECC.10.20","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":10,"verse":20,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 10:20","text":"Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought; and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter."}