"Folded Hands of the Fool"

April 12, 2016

“Folded Hands of The Fool”

Blessings folk!

The writer of Ecclesiastes has some to say about The Fool.
The tone is often different than the Psalms…sometimes a maudlin sarcasm…

Ecc 4:5
The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.

Ecc 5:3
For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.

Ecc 6:8
For what advantage does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have, knowing how to walk before the living?

Ecc 7:6
For as the crackling of thorn bushes under a pot,
So is the laughter of the fool;
And this too is futility.

Ecc 7:17
Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?


The Fool…will not work…waste away in his flesh…bodily effect.
The Fool…a person of many words.
The Fool…no advantage over the wise.
The Fool…crackling cackle fit for burning.

Do not be wicked…”excessively”? How about not at all? LOL
Do not be The Fool.

Apparently such will lead to dying before our time.