Ecclesiastes 10:16
You're in trouble if the king of your country is young, and if your leaders are busy feasting from early morning.
Free Bible 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
15Work makes fools so worn out they can't achieve anything.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:11My father placed a heavy burden on you, and I will make it even heavier. My father punished you with whips; I will punish you with scorpions.’”
2 Chronicles 33:1Manasseh was twelve when he became king, and he reigned in for Jerusalem fifty-five years.
2 Chronicles 36:5Jehoiakim was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 36:11Zedekiah was twenty-one when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years.
Isaiah 3:4I will give them boys as their leaders who will rule over them in childish ways.
Isaiah 5:11Tragedy is coming to you who get up early in the morning wanting a drink, and who stay up late drinking wine until you're drunk.
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 →