New King James Version
Proverbs 19:10
10Luxury is not fitting for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule over princes.
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 Living Translation (NLT)It isn’t right for a fool to live in luxury or for a slave 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 speaks lies shall perish. Luxury is not fitting for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule over princes. 11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression. 12The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.
Read all of Proverbs 19Proverbs 19:10 word by word
לֹֽא־נָאוֶ֣ה לִכְסִ֣יל תַּעֲנ֑וּג אַ֝֗ף כִּֽי־לְעֶ֤בֶד׀ מְשֹׁ֬ל בְּשָׂרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 19:10
- Proverbs 30:21For three things the earth is perturbed, Yes, for four it cannot bear up:
- 1 Samuel 25:36Now Abigail went to Nabal, and there 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; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light.
- Esther 3:15The couriers went out, hastened by the king’s command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan the citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed.
- Isaiah 5:11Woe to those who rise early in the morning, That they may follow intoxicating drink; Who continue until night, till wine inflames them!
- Isaiah 22:12And in that day the Lord God of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
- Hosea 7:3They make a king glad with their wickedness, And princes with their lies.
- Hosea 9:1Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
- Amos 6:3Woe to you who put far off the day of doom, Who cause the seat of violence to come near;
- Luke 16:19“There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.
- James 4:9Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
- 2 Samuel 3:24Then Joab came to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you; why is it that you sent him away, and he has already gone?
- Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error proceeding from the ruler:
- Isaiah 3:5The people will be oppressed, Every one by another and every one by his neighbor; The child will be insolent toward the elder, And the base toward 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
Topics related to Proverbs 19:10
In the dictionaries
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
New King James Version — © 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc
Commentaries