Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to thee, O city, whose king is young, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Brenton Septuagint
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 will afflict them, as that of one who knows not to go to the city.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:11And + 12:11 Gr. now.whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I also will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise 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 36:5d and for the innocent blood which Joakim shed, for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; yet the Lord would not utterly destroy them.
2 Chronicles 36:11Sedekias was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 3:4And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them.
Isaiah 5:11Woe to them that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait at it till the evening: for the wine shall inflame them.
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 →