Ecc 10:15-16 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Eccl 10:15-20: 10:15-20 The audience for this speech might have been an assembly of government workers. How should one rule when power and wealth invite a lack of accountability? 10:15 Fools are so unaccustomed to work that when they actually try to work, they become exhausted .

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‏ Ecclesiastes 10:15-16

Summary for Eccl 10:15-20: 10:15-20 ^a The audience for this speech might have been an assembly of government workers. How should one rule when power and wealth invite a lack of accountability? 10:15 ^b Fools are so unaccustomed to work that when they actually try to work, they become exhausted.
Summary for Eccl 10:16-17: 10:16-17 ^c A servant lacks leadership skills.

• feast at the proper time: Wise leaders take their leisure only after the work is finished, not in the morning before work has even started. Lazy leaders weaken a society or organization.