17Blessed 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!


In Context

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.

19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers all things.

Ecclesiastes 10:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:17Blessed [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!

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:17Blessed are you, O land whose king is of noble birth and whose princes eat at a proper time- for strength and not for drunkenness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:17Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:17Happy 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!

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:17Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:17Happy 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!

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:17Blessed 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!

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:17Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:17Happy art thou, O land, When thy king is a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.