Ecclesiastes 10:17
World English Bible (WEB)
Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
In context
15 The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
16 Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
17 Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.
Ecclesiastes 10:17 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
- KJV King James Version
- 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!
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time— for strength and not for drunkenness.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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!
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Happy art thou, O land, When thy king [is] a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a son of nobles, and thy princes eat in [due] season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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!