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Ecclesiastes 10:17

World English Bible

Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles,
and your princes eat in due season,
for strength, and not for drunkenness!

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Ecclesiastes 10:17 in other translations

Happy 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!

Ecclesiastes 10:17 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 10:17 in context

  1. 15The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
  2. 16Woe to you, land, when your king is a child,
    and your princes eat in the morning!
  3. 17Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles,
    and your princes eat in due season,
    for strength, and not for drunkenness!
  4. 18By slothfulness the roof sinks in;
    and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
  5. 19A feast is made for laughter,
    and wine makes the life glad;
    and money is the answer for all things.