Ecclesiastes 10:13 Commentary and Bible Study

There is a progression in the foolishness of the fool, and it is not in the direction of what is good, but of what is harmful. This is true over a single conversation, and it is true over the course of his life. The words of his mouth are bad enough to begin with, but give him more time and he only gets worse. There can be no improvement where there is no good instruction and where every principle and every tendency is towards evil. Where is the fool going to get wisdom; where is he going to learn to be kind and to do justice, when inside him there is that hatred towards any instruction from God?In conversation with him, if you turn him to a spiritual topic and ask him to give his understanding of the meaning of this life, of the nature of man, of the way to find God or even the existence of God; or if he addresses these subjects himself, thinking that he has something worth saying, then since he does not understand even the basic principles of God’s word, he will go further and further from the truth and become more and more inconsistent with himself. One error leads to another. When men try to create a morality of their own based on their own humanistic principles, it will be relativistic and inconsistent, without any unchanging standard behind it and inadequate to steer them clear of the great pitfalls of life.