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15 The toil of fools wearies them,
    so they do not know even the way to town.

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.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:16 A youth: thus too young and inexperienced to govern effectively. Feast in the morning: either concluding a whole night of revelry or beginning a new round of merrymaking.
  2. 10:17 For vigor: or, “with self-control, restraint.”