translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ECC

label: NET study note

text: A fool’s lack of wisdom is obvious to everyone, even when he is engaged in the simple, ordinary actions of life.


text: The terms “beginning” and “end” form a merism, a figure of speech in which two opposites are contrasted to indicate totality (e.g., Deut 6:7 ; Ps 139:8 ; Eccl 3:2-8 ). The words of a fool are madness from “start to finish.”