Ecclesiastes 10:17
Good News Translation
But a country is fortunate to have a king who makes his own decisions and leaders who eat at the proper time, who control themselves and don't get drunk.

New Revised Standard Version
Happy are you, O land, when your king is a nobleman, and your princes feast at the proper time— for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Contemporary English Version
But a nation will prosper when its ruler is mature, and its leaders don't party too much.

New American Bible
Happy are you, O land, whose king is of noble birth, and whose princes dine at the right time— for vigor and not in drinking bouts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.

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Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.

when

Ecclesiastes 10:6,7 A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath. . . .

Proverbs 28:2,3 For the sins of the land many are the princes thereof: and for the wisdom of a man, and the knowledge of those things that are said, the life of the prince shall be prolonged. . . .

Jeremiah 30:21 And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince shall come forth from the midst of them: and I will bring him near, and he shall come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart to approach to me, saith the Lord?

and thy

Proverbs 31:4,5 Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth: . . .

Context
Wisdom and Folly
16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning. 17Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.18By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through the weakness of hands, the house shall drop through.…
Cross References
Proverbs 31:4
Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth:

Isaiah 5:11
Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine.

Ecclesiastes 10:16
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