Ecclesiastes 10:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

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  • Isa 3:12 : 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
  • Isa 3:4-5 : 4 And I will make youths their princes, and children shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable.
  • Isa 5:11-12 : 11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them! 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of his hands.
  • 2 Chr 13:7 : 7 And there gathered to him worthless men, sons of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not resist them.
  • 2 Chr 33:1-9 : 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2 But he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he erected altars for Baal, made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4 He also built altars in the house of the LORD, where the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.' 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; also he observed times, used enchantments, used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards; he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he set a carved image, the idol he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and Solomon his son, 'In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever.' 8 And I will no longer remove the foot of Israel from the land which I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them according to the whole law and statutes and ordinances by the hand of Moses. 9 So Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do worse than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel. 10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen. 11 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the thorns, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in distress, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed to him, and he was entreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. 14 After this, he built a wall outside the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, reaching the entrance of the Fish Gate, and encircled Ophel, raising it to a great height, and put commanders of war in all the fortified cities of Judah. 15 And he removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. 16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. 17 Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to the LORD their God. 18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, are written in the book of the kings of Israel. 19 Also his prayer, how God was entreated of him, all his sin and trespass, and the places where he built high places and set up groves and carved images, before he humbled himself, are written among the sayings of the seers. 20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.
  • 2 Chr 36:2 : 2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 36:5 : 5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
  • 2 Chr 36:9 : 9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 36:11 : 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
  • Prov 20:1-2 : 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise. 2 The fear of a king is like the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
  • Isa 28:7-8 : 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
  • Jer 21:12 : 12 O house of David, thus says the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury goes out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
  • Hos 7:5-7 : 5 On the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he reaches out his hand with scorners. 6 For they prepare their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire. 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings have fallen: there is none among them that calls unto me.

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    17Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

    18By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Isa 3:4-6
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    4And I will make youths their princes, and children shall rule over them.

    5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable.

    6When a man shall take hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:

  • Isa 7:16
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    16For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you abhor shall be forsaken by both her kings.

  • Eccl 4:13-14
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    13Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who will not be admonished anymore.

    14For out of prison he comes to reign, whereas he who is born in his kingdom becomes poor.

  • Prov 30:22
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    22For a servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with food;

  • Prov 19:10
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    10Delight is not fitting for a fool; much less for a servant to rule over princes.

  • Isa 5:11
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    11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

  • Hos 10:15
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    15Thus shall Bethel do to you because of your great wickedness: in the morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

  • Prov 28:2
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    2For the transgression of a land, many are its princes; but by a person of understanding and knowledge, its state will be prolonged.

  • Eccl 10:5-7
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    5There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which proceeds from the ruler:

    6Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

    7I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

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    2When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.

  • Prov 28:15-16
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    15As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over poor people.

    16The prince who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, but he who hates covetousness shall prolong his days.

  • Prov 31:4
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    4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to crave strong drink.

  • Hos 7:5
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    5On the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he reaches out his hand with scorners.

  • Zeph 3:3
    69%

    3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.

  • Hos 13:10
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    10I will be your king: where is any other that may save you in all your cities? and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?

  • Eccl 10:15
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    15The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he does not know how to go to the city.

  • Prov 17:7
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    7Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, much less lying lips for a prince.

  • Ps 2:10
    69%

    10Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • 1 Sam 12:25
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    25But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king.

  • Jer 4:9
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    9And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

  • Isa 32:1
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    1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule with justice.

  • Prov 23:1
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    1When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:

  • Isa 3:12
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    12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Isa 21:5
    69%

    5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield.

  • Isa 3:14
    69%

    14The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

  • Jer 22:15
    68%

    15Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

  • Isa 9:16
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    16For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.

  • Isa 28:1
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    1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which is on the head of the fertile valleys of those who are overcome with wine!

  • Isa 8:21
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    21And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

  • Lam 5:12-13
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    12Princes were hung up by their hands; the faces of elders were not honored.

    13They took the young men to grind, and the children stumbled under the loads of wood.

  • Prov 16:10
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    10A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; his mouth does not transgress in judgment.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who puts the bottle to him, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on their nakedness!

  • Ps 107:40
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    40He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way.

  • Hos 10:13
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    13You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you trusted in your own way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

  • Job 3:14
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    14With kings and counselors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves;

  • Prov 16:12
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    12It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness, for the throne is established by righteousness.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.