Ecclesiastes 10:17
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English Standard Version
Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

New American Standard Bible
Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of nobility and whose princes eat at the appropriate time-- for strength and not for drunkenness.

King James Bible
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Blessed are you, land, when your king is a son of nobles and your princes feast at the proper time-- for strength and not for drunkenness.

International Standard Version
That land is blessed whose king is of noble birth, whose princes feast at the right time, for strength, and not to become drunk.

NET Bible
Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time--with self-control and not in drunkenness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A country is blessed when the king is from a noble family and when the high officials eat at the right time in order to get strength and not to get drunk.

King James 2000 Bible
Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

American King James Version
Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

American Standard Version
Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

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

Darby Bible Translation
Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

English Revised Version
Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

World English Bible
Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Young's Literal Translation
Happy art thou, O land, When thy king is a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.
Lexicon
Blessed
'esher  (eh'-sher)
happiness; only in masculine plural construction as interjection, how happy! -- blessed, happy.
art thou O land
'erets  (eh'-rets)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land) -- common, country, earth, field, ground, land, natins, way, + wilderness, world.
when thy king
melek  (meh'-lek)
a king -- king, royal.
is the son
ben  (bane)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc.
of nobles
chor  (khore)
white or pure (from the cleansing or shining power of fire ; hence (figuratively) noble (in rank) -- noble.
and thy princes
sar  (sar)
a head person (of any rank or class) -- captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord, (-task-)master, prince(-ipal), ruler, steward.
eat
'akal  (aw-kal')
to eat -- at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, freely, in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, quite.
in due season
`eth  (ayth)
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
for strength
gbuwrah  (gheb-oo-raw')
force; by implication, valor, victory -- force, mastery, might, mighty (act, power), power, strength.
and not for drunkenness
shthiy  (sheth-ee')
intoxicaion -- drunkenness.
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