Proverbs 19:10
Pleasure is not comely for a foole, much lesse for a seruant to haue rule ouer princes.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shall perish.
11The discretion of man deferreth his anger: and his glory is to passe by an offence.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:36So Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he made a feast in his house, like the feast of a King, and Nabals heart was merie within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore shee tolde him nothing, neither lesse nor more, vntil the morning arose.
2 Samuel 3:39And I am this day weake and newly anoynted King: and these men the sonnes of Zeruiah be too harde for me: the Lord rewarde the doer of euill according to his wickednesse.
Proverbs 17:7Hie talke becommeth not a foole, much lesse a lying talke a prince.
Proverbs 30:21For three things the earth is moued: yea, for foure it cannot susteine it selfe:
Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an euil that I haue seene vnder the sunne, as an errour that proceedeth from the face of him that ruleth.
Isaiah 3:5The people shalbe oppressed one of another, and euery one by his neighbour: the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile 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 →