Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 10:16

16 Wo to thee, O land, when thy king is a child : and thy princes eat in the morning .

Either 1. In Age. Or 2. (Which is more agreeable to the following clause) In Childish Qualities, as Ignorance, Inexperience, Injudiciousness, Rashness, Frowardness, Fickleness, or Wilfulness, and the like: in which sense this word is used, 2 Chr. 13. 7. compared with 1 Kin. 14. 21. Isa. 3. 4, 12. 1 Cor. 14. 20. Eph. 4. 14.

Give up themselves to eating and drinking excessively and intemperately, as it is explained in the next verse.

The fittest time for Gods service, and for the dispatch of weighty affairs, and for sitting in judgment. Psal. 101. 8. Ier. 21. 12. Which circumstance is added as a plain evidence of men that wholly devote themselves to vanity and Luxury; which must needs occasion gross neglect of the great concerns of the Kingdom, the oppression of the people to support such extravagancies, and a woful and general corruption of the people by their example, and otherwise; which makes him say, Wo to that people.

Marginal references: Isa. 3. 3, 4, 5, 12. & 5. 11.