Ecclesiastes 10:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
No One Knows What Evil Will Come
16 Woe to you, O land, whose king is a youth,[a]
and whose princes feast in the morning!
17 Happy are you, O land, whose king is of noble birth,
and whose princes dine at the right time—
for vigor[b] and not in drinking bouts.
18 Because of laziness, the rafters sag;
when hands are slack, the house leaks.
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