Ecclesiastes 10:16

American Standard Version

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

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Ecclesiastes 10:16 in other translations

Woe to you, land, when your king is a child,
and your princes eat in the morning!

Ecclesiastes 10:16 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 10:16 in context

  1. 14A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
  2. 15The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city.
  3. 16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
  4. 17Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
  5. 18By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.