SinaiEcclesiastes 10:17
American Standard Version
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!
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Ecclesiastes 10:17 in other translations
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!
Ecclesiastes 10:17 in context
- 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.
- 19A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things.