¹⁶ Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child and when your [incompetent] officials and princes feast in the morning. ¹⁷ Blessed [prosperous and admired] are you, O land, when your king is a man of noble birth, and your princes and officials feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.^{(A) 18} Through laziness the rafters [of state affairs] decay and the roof sags, and through idleness [the roof of] the house leaks.