Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Wo! to thee, O land: thy king a youth, and thy chiefs will 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.
Darby Translation
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes 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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Sar
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 10:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Burden Of Folly
15 The labor of the foolish will weary them, because he knew not to go to the city. 16 Wo! to thee, O land: thy king a youth, and thy chiefs will eat in the morning. 17 Happy thou, O land: thy king the son of nobles, and thy chiefs shall eat in time, in strength and not in drinking.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 3:12
My people, their tyrants from children, and women ruled over them. My people, they calling thee happy, causing to err; they destroyed the way of thy paths.
2 Chronicles 13:7
And vain men will gather together to him, sons of Belial; and they will strengthen themselves against Rehoboam son of Solomon; and Rehoboam being young and tender of heart, and he was not strong before them.
Isaiah 3:4-5
And I gave boys their chiefs, and the petulant shall rule over them.
2 Chronicles 33:1-20
The son of twelve years was Manasseh in his reigning, and fifty and five years he reigned in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:2
The son of three and twenty years was Jehoahaz in his reigning, and three months reigned he in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:5
The son of twenty and five years was Jehoiakim in his reigning, and eleven years reigned he in Jerusalem: and he will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah his God.
2 Chronicles 36:9
The son of eight years was Jehoiachin in his reigning, and three months and ten days reigned he in Jerusalem: and he will do the evil in the eyes of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 36:11
The son of twenty and one years was Zedekiah in his reigning, and eleven years reigned he in Jerusalem.
Proverbs 20:1-2
Wine is mocking, strong drink is noisy: and every one going astray by it will not be wise.
Isaiah 5:11-12
Wo to those rising early in the morning, they will follow strong drink; remaining in the evening, wine will inflame them.
Isaiah 28:7-8
And these also went astray by wine, and by strong drink they erred; the priest and the prophet went astray by strong drink, they were swallowed up from wine, they erred from strong drink, they went astray in seeing, they wavered in judgment.
Jeremiah 21:12
O house of David, thus said Jehovah, Judge judgment for the morning, and deliver him taken by force from the hand of him oppressing, lest my wrath shall go forth as fire, and burn, and none quenching from the face of the evil of your doings.
Hosea 7:5-7
The day of our king the chiefs began anger from wine; stretching forth his hand with mockers.