John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 10:13

Verſ. 13. The beginning of his words are folly] Hee is an inconſiderate Ideot, utters incoherences, pours forth a floud of follies, his whole diſcourſe is frivolous, futilous. To begin fooliſhly may befall a wiſe man; but when hee ſees it, or hath it ſhewed unto him, he will not perſiſt: Once have I ſpoken, ſaith holy Job, but I will not anſwer again: yea twice, but I will proceed no further, Chap. 40.4, 5. Much otherwiſe the fool, and becauſe hee will bee dicti ſui dominus, (as verſ. 11.) having laſht out at firſt, he lancheth further out into the deep, as it were, of idle and evil prattle. And if you offer to interrupt or admoniſh him, the end of his talk is miſchievous madneſſe, he bluſters and lets fly on all hands, laying about him like a mad-man. And ſo wee have here, (as one ſaith) the Serpent, the Babbler (ſpoken of in the eleventh verſe) wreathed into a circle: his two ends, head and tayl, meeting together.D. Jerm. And as at the one end, he is a Serpent, having his ſting in his head; ſo at the other end he is a Scorpion, having his ſting in his tavl.