Proverbs 19:10
Luxury is not fitting for a fool, || Much less for a servant to rule among princes.
Literal Standard Version
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 is not acquitted, || And whoever breathes out lies perishes.
11The wisdom of a man has deferred his anger, || And his glory [is] to pass over transgression.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:36And Abigail comes to Nabal, and behold, he has a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal [is] glad within him, and he [is] drunk to excess, and she has not declared anything to him, little or much, until the morning light.
2 Samuel 3:39And today I [am] tender, and an anointed king: and these men, sons of Zeruiah, [are] too hard for me; YHWH repays to the doer of the evil according to his evil.”
Proverbs 17:7A lip of excellence is not fitting for a fool, much less a lip of falsehood for a noble.
Proverbs 30:21For three things has earth been troubled, || And for four—it is not able to bear:
Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil I have seen under the sun, || As ignorance that goes out from the ruler,
Isaiah 3:5And the people has exacted—man on man, || Even a man on his neighbor, || The youths enlarge themselves against the aged, || And the lightly esteemed against the honored.
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 →