Beginning Foolish Words - Ecclesiastes 10:13

In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon said, “the words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself”, and in chapter ten and verse thirteen of his book Solomon said, “the beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness” where we read,

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: 

and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

The verse reads, “The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness:” Solomon began with the words, “the beginning” or “the origin and commencement” “of the words of his mouth” which means “pertaining to the utterances, declarations and proclamations belonging to his, the foolish man’s, orifice in the face used for eating, drinking and speaking” “is foolishness” or “exists as folly and silliness”. Solomon said the commencement of the utterances from the orifice in the face used for speaking of a fool is filled with silliness and folly. 

 

The verse goes on to say, “and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.” Solomon continued with the words, “and the end of his talk” or “and the after, latter and final part pertaining to his, the foolish person’s, extreme commands and sentence” “is mischievous madness” which means “exists as bad, evil, malignant and unpleasant folly”. Solomon said the final words from the speech of the foolish person exists as malignant and evil wickedness. 

When we think through the words in this verse, we learn through Solomon how the beginning and ending of the words of a simpleton and foolish person are silly and wicked. In other words, everything they say is unprofitable and leads to trouble. God wants us to guard our tongues, (See James 3:2-12), and when He sent His Son Jesus into the world to die on the cross for the sins of all mankind and raised from the dead after three days, those sins included the words of our mouths. When we surrender to Jesus, He will forgive our sins, grant us everlasting life and give us the power of His Holy Spirit to help control what we say both in the commencement and in the finality of our words. 

Next time Solomon says, “a fool also is full of words”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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