New Revised Standard Version
The toil of fools wears them out, for they do not even know the way to town.

Contemporary English Version
Fools wear themselves out--they don't know enough to find their way home.

New American Bible
The toil of fools wearies them, so they do not know even the way to town.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not how to go to the city.

The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not how to go to the city.

labour

Ecclesiastes 10:3,10 Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools. . . .

Isaiah 44:12-17 The smith hath wrought with his file, with coals, and with hammers he hath formed it, and hath wrought with the strength of his arm: he shall hunger and faint, he shall drink no water, and shall be weary. . . .

Isaiah 47:12,13 Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger. . . .

Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.

Isaiah 57:1 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.

Habakkuk 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?

Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. . . .

because

Psalm 107:4,7 They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation. . . .

Isaiah 35:8-10 And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein. . . .

Jeremiah 50:4,5 In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together: going and weeping they shall make haste, and shall seek the Lord their God. . . .