Ecclesiastes 10:16-20

¹⁶Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a boy, and thy princes feast in the morning!

¹⁷Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a free man, and thy princes eat in due season, in strength, and not in drunkenness!

¹⁸By slothfulness the rafters sink in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.

¹⁹A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things.

²⁰Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought, and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.