Proverbs 19:10
Delicacy is not seemly for a fool: much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Leeser Tanakh
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 remain unpunished, and he that uttereth lies shall perish.
11It is intelligence in man to be slow in his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:36And Abigayil 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, and he was exceedingly drunken; wherefore she told him not a word, either little or great, until the morning-light.
2 Samuel 3:39And I am this day yet weak, and just anointed king; and these men, the sons of Zeruyah, are too strong for me: may the Lord pay the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
Proverbs 17:7High-toned language is not seemly to a worthless fool: and yet much less the language of falsehood to a noble.
Proverbs 30:21Under three things the earth trembleth, and under four which she cannot bear:
Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
Isaiah 3:5And so shall the people press man against man, and one against the other: the boy shall demean himself proudly against the ancient, 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 →