Parallel Verses
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.
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!
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.
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!
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 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. 18 Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through idleness of hands the house leaks.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:26
You may spend the money for anything {that you desire}, for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for anything {that you desire}, and you shall eat [it] there {before} Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
Proverbs 28:2-3
By the rebellion of a land, her rulers increase, but by a person of intelligence who knows justice, it will last.
Proverbs 31:4-5
[It is] not for the kings, O Lemuel; drinking wine [is] not for the kings, nor [is] strong drink for rulers.
Ecclesiastes 10:6-7
The fool is set in many high places, but the rich sit in lowly places.
Isaiah 5:11
Ah! Those who rise early in the morning, they pursue strong drink. Those who linger in the evening, wine inflames them.
Jeremiah 30:21
And their noble will be from them, and their ruler will come out from their midst. And I will bring him near and he will approach me. For who [is] he that would pledge his heart to approach me?' {declares} Yahweh.