Proverbs 19:10
Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 that speaketh lies, shall perish.
11The learning of a man is known by patience and his glory is to pass over wrongs.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:36And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king, and Nabal's heart was merry: for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning.
2 Samuel 3:39But I as yet am tender, though anointed king. And these men the sons of Sarvia are too hard for me: the Lord reward him that doth evil according to his wickedness.
Proverbs 17:7Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.
Proverbs 30:21By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear:
Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the face of the prince:
Isaiah 3:5And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make it tumult against the ancient, 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 →