Proverbs 19:10
Luxurious living is not fitting for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over rulers.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
In Context
9A FALSE witness shall not be unpunished, and he who utters lies shall perish.
11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:36And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
2 Samuel 3:39And I am this day weak, though anointed king, and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. LORD reward the evil-doer according to his wickedness.
Proverbs 17:7Excellent speech is not appropriate to a fool, much less lying lips to a prince.
Proverbs 30:21For three things the earth trembles, and for four, [which] it cannot bear:
Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds from the ruler:
Isaiah 3:5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor. The child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:10
9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish. Here is, 1. A repetition of what was said before ( v. 5 ), for we have need to be again and again warned of the danger of the sin of lying and false-witness-bearing, since nothing is of more fatal consequence. 2. An addition to it in one word; there it was said, He that speaks lies shall not escape, and intimated that he shall be punished. Here it is said, His punishment shall be such as will be his destruction: he shall perish; the… Read the whole commentary →