Proverbs 19:10
Luxury is unseemly for a fool— how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
Berean Standard Bible
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 will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.
11A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:36When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
2 Samuel 3:39And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
Proverbs 17:7Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
Proverbs 30:21Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil I have seen under the sun— an error that proceeds from the ruler:
Isaiah 3:5The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, 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 →