Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to you, O city, whose king is young, and your princes eat in the morning!
LXX2012 (US English)
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 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 36:5Joachim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zechora, daughter of Nerias of Rama. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers did. In his days came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon into the land, and he served him three years, and then revolted from him. And the Lord sent against them the Chaldeans, and plundering parties of Syrians, and plundering parties of the Moabites, and of the children of Ammon, and of Samaria; but after this they departed, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of his servants the prophets. Nevertheless the wrath of the Lord was upon Juda, so that they should be removed from his presence, because of the sins of Manasses in all that he did, 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 be 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 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 →