New American Standard Bible 1995
Proverbs 19:10
Proverbs 19:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
- New International Version (NIV)It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury— how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
- English Standard Version (ESV)It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Luxury is not fitting for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule over princes.
Context of Proverbs 19:10
8He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; He who keeps understanding will find good. 9A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will perish. Luxury is not fitting for a fool; Much less for a slave to rule over princes. 11A man’s discretion makes him slow to anger, And it is his glory to overlook a transgression. 12The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.
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לֹֽא־נָאוֶ֣ה לִכְסִ֣יל תַּעֲנ֑וּג אַ֝֗ף כִּֽי־לְעֶ֤בֶד׀ מְשֹׁ֬ל בְּשָׂרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 19:10
- Proverbs 30:21Under three things the earth quakes, And under four, it cannot bear up:
- 1 Samuel 25:36Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light.
- Esther 3:15The couriers went out impelled by the king’s command while the decree was issued at the citadel in Susa; and while the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was in confusion.
- Isaiah 5:11Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink, Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!
- Isaiah 22:12Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing, To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.
- Hosea 7:3With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies.
- Hosea 9:1Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved harlots’ earnings on every threshing floor.
- Amos 6:3Do you put off the day of calamity, And would you bring near the seat of violence?
- Luke 16:19“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.
- James 4:9Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
- 2 Samuel 3:24Then Joab came to the king and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you; why then have you sent him away and he is already gone?
- Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like an error which goes forth from the ruler--
- Isaiah 3:5And the people will be oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; The youth will storm against the elder And the inferior against the honorable.
Commentaries on Proverbs 19:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Delight is not seemly for a fool - תענוג taanug, splendid or luxurious living, rank, equipage, etc. These sit ill on a fool, though he be by birth a lord. For a servant to have rule over princes - I pity the king who delivers himself into the hands of his own ministers. Such a one loses his character, and cannnot be respected by his subjects, or rather their subjects. But it is still worse when a person of mean extraction is raised to the throne, or to…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10“Delight,” high unrestrained enjoyment, is to the “fool” who lacks wisdom but a temptation and a snare. The second clause carries the thought on to what the despotism of Eastern monarchies often presented, the objectionable rule of some favored slave, it might be, of alien birth, over the princes and nobles of the land.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10Verse 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.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. (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).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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