Proverbs 19:10
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New International Version (©1984)
It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury--how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Luxury is not fitting for a fool; Much less for a slave to rule over princes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Luxury does not fit a fool, much less a slave ruling princes.

King James Bible
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

American King James Version
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

American Standard Version
Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Bible in Basic English
Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes.

Darby Bible Translation
Good living beseemeth not a fool; how much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

English Revised Version
Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Webster's Bible Translation
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

World English Bible
Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Young's Literal Translation
Luxury is not comely for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule among princes.

Geneva Study Bible

{c} Delight is not proper for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

(c) The free use of things are not to be permitted to him who cannot use them correctly.

Wesley's Notes

19:10 Delight - To live in pleasure and outward glory, doth not become him, nor suit with him; because prosperity corrupts even wise men, and makes fools mad; and because it gives him more opportunity to discover his folly, and to do mischief both to himself and others.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10. (Compare Pr 17:7). The fool is incapable of properly using pleasure as knowledge, yet for him to have it is less incongruous than the undue elevation of servants. Let each abide in his calling (1Co 7:20).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:3. Men run into troubles by their own folly, and then fret at the appointments of God. 4. Here we may see how strong is men's love of money. 5. Those that tell lies in discourse, are in a fair way to be guilty of bearing false-witness. 6. We are without excuse if we do not love God with all our hearts. His gifts to us are past number, and all the gifts of men to us are fruits of his bounty. 7. Christ was left by all his disciples; but the Father was with him. It encourages our faith that he had so large an experience of the sorrows of poverty. 8. Those only love their souls aright that get true wisdom. 9. Lying is a damning, destroying sin. 10. A man that has not wisdom and grace, has no right or title to true joy. It is very unseemly for one who is a servant to sin, to oppress God's free-men.


Proverbs 17:7 Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, Much less are lying lips to a prince.
Proverbs 26:1 Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool.
Proverbs 30:22 Under a slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,
Ecclesiastes 10:6 folly is set in many exalted places while rich men sit in humble places.
Ecclesiastes 10:7 I have seen slaves riding on horses and princes walking like slaves on the land. (NASB ©1995)

Appropriate Comfort Delicate Delight Fitting Fool Foolish Good Less Material Princes Rule Seemly Servant Slave Worse


Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

delight 30:21,22 1Sa 25:36 Es 3:15 Isa 5:11,12 22:12-14 Ho 7:3-5 Ho 9:1 Am 6:3-6 Lu 16:19,23 Jas 4:9

much 2Sa 3:24,25,39 Ec 10:5-7 Isa 3:5

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