Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a youth and your princes feast 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!
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!
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 fool is so worn out by a hard day's work {he cannot even find his way home at night}. 16 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a youth and your princes feast in the morning. 17 Blessed are you, O land, when your king is a son of nobility and your princes feast at the proper time-- to gain strength and not to get drunk.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 3:12
My people--children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading [you], and they confuse the course of your paths.
2 Chronicles 13:7
and worthless men, {sons of wickedness}, were gathered about him and became hostile against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was a boy and gentle of heart and was not strong enough [to stand] before them.
Isaiah 3:4-5
And I will make boys 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 eyes of Yahweh his God.
2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh.
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 mocker, strong drink a brawler, and any who go astray by it are not wise.
Isaiah 5:11-12
Ah! Those who rise early in the morning, they pursue strong drink. Those who linger in the evening, wine inflames them.
Isaiah 28:7-8
And these also stagger because of wine and stagger because of strong drink; priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink; they are confused because of wine. They stagger because of strong drink; they err in vision. They stagger [in the] rendering of a decision,
Jeremiah 21:12
O house of David, thus says Yahweh, "Execute judgment in the morning, justice, and deliver [the] one who has been seized from [the] hand of [the] oppressor, lest my wrath goes forth like the fire and it burns, and there is no [one who] quenches [it] because of the evil of your deeds.
Hosea 7:5-7
[On] the day of our king, the princes became sick [with] the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.