Ecclesiastes 10:16-18

New American Standard Bible

¹⁶ Woe to you, land whose ^(A)king is a boy, and whose princes ^[a]feast in the morning. ¹⁷ Blessed are you, land whose king is of nobility, and whose princes eat at the appropriate time—for strength and not for ^(B)drunkenness. ¹⁸ Through ^(C)extreme laziness the rafters sag, and through idleness the house leaks.