Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to you, the land whose king is a boy, and whose princes consume in the morning.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
In Context
15The hardship of the foolish will afflict those who do not know to go into the city.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:11And now, my father placed a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add more upon your yoke. My father cut you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.’”
2 Chronicles 33:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil before the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 36:11Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he had begun to reign. And he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 3:4And I will provide children as their leaders, and the effeminate will rule over them.
Isaiah 5:11Woe to you who rise up in the morning to pursue drunkenness, and to drink even until evening, so as to be inflamed with wine.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 10:13-16
The Contemptibleness of Folly. 12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. 14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him? 15 The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city. Solomon, having shown the benefit of wisdom, and of what great… Read the whole commentary →