...sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler; folly is set in great dignity — ." v. 1 6, 1 7. "woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning." — Isai. i. 23. " thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves,...

...(Isaiah xxxv. 8), yet sinful folly makes men miss the way." ' » ,, \ « •V EccuaiASTES T. IS. " Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is .a child, and thy princes eat in the morning." If the king be a child in temper, capricious, weak, incapable of business,...

...Rechabites (Jer. xxxv. 7), shunned the life of cities and dwelt in the desert country by the Dead Sea. 16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a. child, and thy 17 princes eat in the morning. Blessed art thou, O land, Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is...

...Rechabites (Jer. xxxv. 7), shunned the life of cities and dwelt in the desert country by the Dead Sea. 16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy 17 princes eat in the morning. Blessed art thou, O land, Woe to thei, 0 land, when thy hing is...

...labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city. (16) « Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning ! (17) Blessed art thou, O land when thy king is the son of nobles,...

...have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth : " (x, 6, ?.)• " Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning : " (x, 16.) On the other hand, when we compare the sentiments expressed...

...tell him ? The labour of fools wearieth every one of them, for he knoweth not how to go to the city. Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning ! Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy...

...suitable study nor by counsel ; so that to all it is possible to repeat those words from Ecclesiastes : " Woe to thee, O land, when thy King is a child, and thy Princes eat in the morning ; " and to no land is it possible to say that which follows : " Blessed...

...diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a fence a serpent shall bite him. 23. Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy 24. princes eat in the morning ! Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and...

...Solomon could not have written of his own class and country in such terms as we read in ch. x. 16, "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning ! " It is doing violence to language, if not to common sense, to argue...