Ecclesiastes 10:16

The Burden Of Folly

¹⁵ The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town. ¹⁶ Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning. ¹⁷ Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.

Woe to You

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

2 Chronicles 13:7

And certain foolish and good-for-nothing men were joined with him, and made themselves strong against Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and untested and not able to keep them back.

Isaiah 3:4-5

And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.

2 Chronicles 33:1-20

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:2

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 36:9

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 36:11

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years.

Proverbs 20:1-2

Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

Isaiah 5:11-12

Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

Isaiah 28:7-8

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

Jeremiah 21:12

O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

Hosea 7:5-7

On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.