16Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!


In Context

13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

15 The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he knows not how to go to the city.

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

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

18 By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house drops through.

Ecclesiastes 10:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:16Woe to you, O land whose king was a servant and whose princes feast in the morning.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:16Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.