Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Happy thou, O land: thy king the son of nobles, and thy chiefs shall eat in time, in strength and not in drinking.
New American Standard Bible
Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of nobility and whose princes eat at the appropriate time—for strength and not for
King James Version
Blessed 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!
Holman Bible
and your princes feast at the proper time—
for strength and not for drunkenness.
International Standard Version
That land is blessed whose king is of noble birth, whose princes feast at the right time, for strength, and not to become drunk.
A Conservative Version
Happy are thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy rulers feast in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
American Standard Version
Happy 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!
Amplified
Blessed [prosperous and admired] are you, O land, when your king is a man of noble birth, and your princes and officials feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
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!
King James 2000
Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Lexham Expanded Bible
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.
Modern King James verseion
Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your leaders eat in due time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But well is thee, O thou realm and land, whose king is come of nobles, and whose princes eat in due season, for strength and not for lust.
NET Bible
Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time -- with self-control and not in drunkenness.
New Heart English Bible
Blessed 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 Emphasized Bible
How happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a son of nobles, - and, thy rulers, in season, do eat, for strength, and not for debauchery.
Webster
Blessed 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!
World English Bible
Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Youngs Literal Translation
Happy 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.
Themes
the Diet of the jews » Was taken » In the morning, sparingly
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 10:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Burden Of Folly
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. 18 By sloth the frame work will pine away; and by the letting down of the hands, the house will drop.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:26
And give the silver for all which thy soul shall desire, in cattle and in sheep, and in wine, and in strong drink, and in all thy soul shall ask thee: and eat there before Jehovah thy God, and rejoice, thou, and thine house.
Proverbs 28:2-3
In the transgression of a land many its chiefs: and by a man understanding to know, the place shall be extended.
Proverbs 31:4-5
Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink:
Ecclesiastes 10:6-7
Folly was given to great heights, and the rich were set in lowness.
Isaiah 5:11
Wo to those rising early in the morning, they will follow strong drink; remaining in the evening, wine will inflame them.
Jeremiah 30:21
And his mighty one was from himself, and his ruler shall go forth from his midst.; and I caused him to draw near, and he came near to me: for who this pledging his heart to approach to me? says Jehovah.