Proverbs 12:9

It is better to be a humble/ordinary person who has only one servant than to think that you are very important while you have nothing to eat.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

In Context

8People will praise those who have good sense, but people will despise those ◄who are always thinking about doing evil things/whose thinking is twisted►.

10Righteous people take care of their domestic animals, but wicked people act cruelly toward their animals.

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Cross References

Proverbs 13:7Some people who have nothing pretend to be rich, but other people who are very rich pretend to be poor.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:9

8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised. We are here told whence to expect a good name. Reputation is what most have a high regard to and stand much upon. Now it is certain, 1. The best reputation is that which attends virtue and serious piety, and the prudent conduct of life: A man shall be commended by all that are wise and good, in conformity to the judgment of God himself, which we are sure is according to truth, not according to his riches or… Read the whole commentary →

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