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Ecclesiastes 10:16

“Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.”

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¹⁴Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

¹⁵The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.

¹⁶Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.

¹⁷Blessed 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.

¹⁸Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

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