Proverbs 19:10
Luxury is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 breatheth forth lies shall perish.
11It is the discretion of a man to be 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 drunken; wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
2 Samuel 3:39And I am this day weak, and just anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me; the LORD reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.'
Proverbs 17:7Overbearing speech becometh not a churl; much less do lying lips a prince.
Proverbs 30:21For three things the earth doth quake, and for four it cannot endure:
Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which proceedeth from a ruler:
Isaiah 3:5And the people shall oppress one another, every man his fellow, and every man his neighbour; the child shall behave insolently against the aged, 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 →