Proverbs 19:10
Good living beseemeth not a fool; how much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Darby Translation
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 held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall perish.
11The discretion of a man maketh 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 drunken to excess; so 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: Jehovah reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness!
Proverbs 17:7Excellent speech becometh not a vile [man]; how much less do lying lips a noble!
Proverbs 30:21Under three [things] the earth is disquieted, and under four it cannot bear up:
Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as an error [that] proceedeth from the ruler:
Isaiah 3:5And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable.
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 →