American King James Version
"Blessed 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! ¶ "
— Ecclesiastes 10:17, American 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!”
“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! ”
“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!”
“Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time– with self-control and not in drunkenness.”
“Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.”
“Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.”
“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!”
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 labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he knows not how to go to the city. ¶
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
Blessed 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! ¶
By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house drops through. ¶
A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers all things. ¶
Curse not the king, no not in your thought; and curse not the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.