Proverbs 19:10

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

⁹ A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who tells lies will perish.
¹⁰ Luxury is not fitting for a fool;
Much less for a slave to rule over princes.
¹¹ A man’s discretion makes him slow to anger,
And it is his glory to overlook a transgression.

Rule Over

Proverbs 26:1

Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest,
So honor is not fitting for a fool.

Proverbs 30:21-22

Under three things the earth quakes,
And under four, it cannot bear up:

1 Samuel 25:36

Then 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.

2 Samuel 3:24-25

Then 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?

2 Samuel 3:39

I am weak today, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too difficult for me. May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil.”

Esther 3:15

The 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.

Proverbs 17:7

Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool,
Much less are lying lips to a prince.

Ecclesiastes 10:5-7

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like an error which goes forth from the ruler—

Isaiah 3:5

And 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.

Isaiah 5:11-12

Woe 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 22:12-14

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

Hosea 7:3-5

With their wickedness they make the king glad,
And the princes with their lies.

Hosea 9:1

Do 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 6:3-6

Do 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.

Luke 16:23

In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.

James 4:9

Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.