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Ecclesiastes 10:19
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17 Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles,
And your aprinces feast at the proper time—
For strength and not for drunkenness! 
18 Because of laziness the1 building decays,
And athrough idleness of hands the house leaks. 
19 A feast is made for laughter,
And awine makes merry;
But money answers everything. 
20 aDo not curse the king, even in your thought;
Do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom;
For a bird of the air may carry your voice,
And a bird in flight may tell the matter. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ecclesiastes 10:19

Referring to Ecclesiastes 10:18. Instead of repairing the breaches in the commonwealth (equivalent to "building"), the princes "make a feast for laughter (Ecclesiastes 10:16), and wine maketh their life glad (Psalms 104:15), and (but) money supplieth (answereth their wishes by supplying) all things," that is, they take bribes to support their extravagance; and hence arise the wrongs that are perpetrated (Ecclesiastes 10:5-6; Ecclesiastes 3:16; Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 5:23). MAURER takes "all things" of the wrongs to which princes are instigated by "money"; for example, the heavy taxes, which were the occasion of Rehoboam losing ten tribes (I Kings 12:4, etc.).


 
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