Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ecclesiastes 10:9

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9. removeth stones —namely, of an ancient building [WEISS]. His neighbor's landmarks [HOLDEN]. Cuts out from the quarry [MAURER]. endangered —by the splinters, or by the head of the hatchet, flying back on himself. Pithy aphorisms are common in the East. The sense is: Violations of true wisdom recoil on the perpetrators. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-10" class="com-number"