Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 labour of fools shall afflict them that know not bow to go to the city.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:11And now my father put a, heavy yoke upon you, but I will add to your yoke: my father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.
2 Chronicles 33:1Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:5Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 36:11Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 3:4And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.
Isaiah 5:11Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, 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 →