Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
New American Standard Bible
Woe to you, O land, whose
King James Version
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Holman Bible
and your princes feast in the morning.
International Standard Version
Woe to the land whose king is a youth and whose princes feast in the morning.
A Conservative Version
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy rulers feast in the morning!
American Standard Version
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Amplified
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child and when your [incompetent] officials and princes feast in the morning.
Bible in Basic English
Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.
Julia Smith Translation
Wo! to thee, O land: thy king a youth, and thy chiefs will eat in the morning.
King James 2000
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!
Lexham Expanded Bible
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a youth and your princes feast in the morning.
Modern King James verseion
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child and your leaders eat in the morning.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Woe be unto thee, O thou realm and land, whose king is but a child, and whose princes are early at their banquets.
NET Bible
Woe to you, O land, when your king is childish, and your princes feast in the morning!
New Heart English Bible
Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning.
The Emphasized Bible
Alas! for thee, O land, when thy king is a boy, - and, thy rulers, in the morning, do eat:
Webster
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
World English Bible
Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
Youngs Literal Translation
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.
Themes
the Diet of the jews » Was taken » In the morning, sparingly
Gluttony » Of princes, ruinous to their people
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 10:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Burden Of Folly
15 The labour of fools wearieth them, because they know not how to go to the city. 16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! 17 Happy 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!
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee, and destroy the way of thy paths.
2 Chronicles 13:7
And vain men, sons of Belial, gathered to him and strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, and Rehoboam was young and faint-hearted, and did not shew himself strong against them.
Isaiah 3:4-5
And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them.
2 Chronicles 33:1-20
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:2
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:5
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of Jehovah his God.
2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 36:11
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
Proverbs 20:1-2
Wine is a scorner, strong drink is raging; and whoso erreth thereby is not wise.
Isaiah 5:11-12
Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, till wine inflameth them!
Isaiah 28:7-8
But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in vision, they have stumbled in judgment.
Jeremiah 21:12
House of David, thus saith Jehovah: Judge with justice in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go forth like fire and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Hosea 7:5-7
In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners.