Ecclesiastes 10:16-18

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶ Alas for you, O land, when your king is a servant,^[a]
    and your princes feast in the morning!
¹⁷ Happy are you, O land, when your king is a nobleman,
    and your princes feast at the proper time—
    for strength, and not for drunkenness!
¹⁸ Through sloth the roof sinks in,
    and through indolence the house leaks.