Ecclesiastes 10:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ Woe to you, O land, when your sovereign is a youth, and your rulers feast in the morning!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child or a servant and when your officials feast in the morning!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Too bad for you, land, whose king is a boy and whose princes feast in the morning.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Woe to you, the land whose king is a boy, and whose princes consume in the morning.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.

Ecclesiastes 10:16 Cross References

1 Kings 12:11

And now, my father laid a heavy yoke on you, but I add to your yoke; my father flogged you with whips, but I, I flog you with scourges!’ ”

2 Chronicles 13:7

“And vain men gathered to him, sons of Beliya‛al, and strengthened themselves against Reḥaḇ‛am son of Shelomoh, when Reḥaḇ‛am was young and tender of heart and could not be strong against them.

2 Chronicles 36:11

Tsiḏqiyahu was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim.

2 Chronicles 36:2

Yeho’aḥaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three new moons in Yerushalayim.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Yehoyaqim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim. And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה his Elohim.

2 Chronicles 36:9

Yehoyaḵin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim three new moons and ten days. And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה.

Proverbs 28:16

A leader who lacks understanding is a great oppressor, But the hater of greed prolongs his days.

Ecclesiastes 10:15

The labour of fools wearies them, because not one knows how to go to the city!

Isaiah 3:12

“My people! Youths exert pressure on them, and women rule over them. O My people! Your leaders lead you astray, and swallow the way of your paths.”

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of Dawiḏ! Thus said יהוה, “Render right-ruling in the morning, and deliver him who has been robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My wrath go out like fire and burn, with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.