Parallel Verses
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!
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!
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!
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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Sar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 10:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Burden Of Folly
16 Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning! 17 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! 18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:26
and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
Proverbs 28:2-3
In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.
Proverbs 31:4-5
It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'
Ecclesiastes 10:6-7
Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.
Isaiah 5:11
Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
Jeremiah 30:21
Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh.