Proverbs 19:10
Luxury is not fitting for a kesil (fool); 1 much less for an eved to have rule over sarim. 1
Orthodox Jewish 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
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:36And Avigal came to Naval; and, hinei, he held a mishteh (feast) in his bais, like the mishteh of a melech; and lev Naval was tov within him, for he was shikkor ad me'od; wherefore she told him nothing, katan or gadol, until the ohr haboker.
2 Samuel 3:39And I am this day weak, though moshuach melech (being anointed king); and these anashim the Bnei Tzeruyah are too harsh for me; Hashem shall reward the doer of evil according to his ra'ah (evil).
Proverbs 17:7Eloquent speech becometh not a naval (fool), 1 much less do lying sfatayim (lips) a ruler. 1
Proverbs 30:21For shalosh the eretz is disquieted, 1 and for four which it cannot bear: 1
Ecclesiastes 10:5There is a ra'ah which I have seen under the shemesh, the sort of error which proceedeth from a shalit (ruler);
Isaiah 3:5And HaAm shall be oppressed, 1 every one by another, 1 and every one by his re'a; 1 the na'ar shall behave himself proudly against the zaken, 1 and the base against the honorable. 1
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 →