קהלת 10:3

Hebrew Modern Translation

וגם בדרך כשהסכל הלך לבו חסר ואמר לכל סכל הוא׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
וגם בדרך כשהסכל (כשסכל) הלך לבו חסר ואמר לכל סכל הוא

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וְגַם־בַּדֶּ֛רֶךְ *כְּשֶׁהַסָּכָל **כְּשֶׁסָּכָ֥ל הֹלֵ֖ךְ לִבֹּ֣ו חָסֵ֑ר וְאָמַ֥ר לַכֹּ֖ל סָכָ֥ל הֽוּא ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
וְגַם־בַּדֶּרֶךְ כְּשֶׁסָּכָל כְּשֶׁהַסָּכָל| הֹלֵךְ לִבּוֹ חָסֵר וְאָמַר לַכֹּל סָכָל הֽוּא ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wisdom: Heb. heart

and he: Ecclesiastes 5:3, Proverbs 13:16, Proverbs 18:2, Proverbs 18:6, 1 Peter 4:4

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:8 - General 2 Chronicles 10:8 - he forsook Proverbs 12:23 - but Proverbs 14:33 - General Proverbs 17:28 - General Ecclesiastes 2:14 - wise Ecclesiastes 10:15 - labour Acts 22:23 - cast

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way,.... The king's highway, the common road; as he passeth along the streets, going to any place, or about any business:

his wisdom faileth [him]; or "his heart" p; he appears by his gait, his manner of walking, to want a heart, to be a fool; walking with a froward mouth, winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, and teaching with his fingers; all which shows the frowardness and folly of his heart, Proverbs 6:12; or he discovers it throughout his conversation, in all the actions of it, in whatsoever business he is concerned, and in all the affairs of life. The Targum is,

"when he walketh in a perplexed way;''

then his wisdom fails him; he does not know which way to take, whether to the right or left: this can never be understood of the highway of holiness, in which men, though fools, shall not err, Isaiah 35:8;

and he saith to everyone [that] he [is] a fool; his folly is manifest to all; he betrays it, by his words and actions, to every man he has to do with; his sins and transgressions, which are his folly, he hides not, they are evident to all; and, as the Targum expresses it,

"all say he is a fool:''

though indeed he himself says this of every other man, that he is a fool; for, according to the Vulgate Latin version, he, being a fool himself, thinks everybody else is so.

p לבו "cor ejus", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“Way” may be understood either literally (compare Ecclesiastes 10:15), or figuratively, of the course of action which he follows.

He saith ... - He exposes his folly to every one he meets.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 10:3. When - a fool walketh by the way — In every act of life, and in every company he frequents, the irreligious man shows what he is. Vanity, nonsense, and wickedness are his themes: so that in effect he saith to every one that he is a fool.