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16 Oy to you, O land, when your king is a youth[a]
    and your princes feast in the morning.
17 Happy are you, O land, when your king is a son of nobles,
    and your princes eat at the proper time—
    in self-control and not in drunkenness!

18 By laziness the rafters sag,
    and by idle hands the house leaks.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 10:16 Or, servant.

16 Woe to the land whose king was a servant[a](A)
    and whose princes feast in the morning.
17 Blessed is the land whose king is of noble birth
    and whose princes eat at a proper time—
    for strength and not for drunkenness.(B)

18 Through laziness, the rafters sag;
    because of idle hands, the house leaks.(C)

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  1. Ecclesiastes 10:16 Or king is a child