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15 Work wears fools out;
    they don’t even know how to get home.

The Value of Work

16 How terrible it is for a country whose king is a child
    and whose leaders eat all morning.
17 How lucky a country is whose king comes from a good family,
    whose leaders eat only at mealtime
    and for strength, not to get drunk.

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

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)

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 10:16 Or king is a child