SinaiEcclesiastes 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 in context
- 14A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
- 15The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city.
- 16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
- 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!
- 18By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.