Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to you, O land, when your king [is] a youth, || And your princes eat in the morning.
Literal Standard 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 labor of the foolish wearies him, || In that he has not known to go to the city.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:11and now, my father laid a heavy yoke on you, and I add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, and I discipline you with scorpions.”
2 Chronicles 33:1Manasseh is a son of twelve years in his reigning, and he has reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem;
2 Chronicles 36:5Jehoiakim [is] a son of twenty-five years in his reigning, and he has reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and he does evil in the eyes of his God YHWH;
2 Chronicles 36:11Zedekiah [is] a son of twenty-one years in his reigning, and he has reigned eleven years in Jerusalem;
Isaiah 3:4And I have made youths their heads, || And sucklings rule over them.
Isaiah 5:11Woe [to] those rising early in the morning, || They pursue strong drink! Lingering in twilight, wine inflames 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 →