Ecclesiastes 10:16
“Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!”
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Blessed 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!
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Related Verses
“Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.”
“I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.”
“Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.”
“There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:”
“Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.”