Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
New American Standard Bible
Woe to you, O land, whose
King James Version
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Holman Bible
and your princes feast in the morning.
International Standard Version
Woe to the land whose king is a youth and whose princes feast in the morning.
A Conservative Version
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy rulers feast in the morning!
Amplified
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child and when your [incompetent] officials and princes feast in the morning.
Bible in Basic English
Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.
Darby Translation
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Julia Smith Translation
Wo! to thee, O land: thy king a youth, and thy chiefs will eat in the morning.
King James 2000
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!
Lexham Expanded Bible
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a youth and your princes feast in the morning.
Modern King James verseion
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child and your leaders eat in the morning.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Woe be unto thee, O thou realm and land, whose king is but a child, and whose princes are early at their banquets.
NET Bible
Woe to you, O land, when your king is childish, and your princes feast in the morning!
New Heart English Bible
Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning.
The Emphasized Bible
Alas! for thee, O land, when thy king is a boy, - and, thy rulers, in the morning, do eat:
Webster
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
World English Bible
Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
Youngs Literal Translation
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.
Themes
the Diet of the jews » Was taken » In the morning, sparingly
Gluttony » Of princes, ruinous to their people
Topics
Interlinear
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Sar
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 10:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Burden Of Folly
15 The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city. 16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! 17 Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
2 Chronicles 13:7
And there were gathered unto him worthless men, base fellows, that strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them.
Isaiah 3:4-5
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
2 Chronicles 33:1-20
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:2
Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:5
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah his God.
2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 36:11
Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
Proverbs 20:1-2
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
Isaiah 5:11-12
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!
Isaiah 28:7-8
And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Jeremiah 21:12
O house of David, thus saith Jehovah, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Hosea 7:5-7
On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.
