Delicate ease becometh not a fool; much more unseemly is it, a bond man to have the rule of princes.

Like as snow is not mete in summer, nor rain in harvest; even so is worship unseemly for a fool.

Through three things the earth is disquieted, and the fourth may it not bear:

And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day.

Then Joab went to the king, and said, "What hast thou done? See, Abner came unto thee, why hast thou sent him away, that he should escape quite?

And I am this day tender, though I be anointed king. And these men the sons of Zeruiah be too strong for me to rule. But the LORD reward the doer of evil, according to his wickedness."

And the posts went in all the haste according to the king's commandment. And in the castle of Susa was the commandment devised. And the king and Haman sat and drank. But the city Susa was disquieted.

An eloquent speech becometh not a fool; much less a lying mouth, then, becometh a prince.

Another plague is there, which I have seen under the sun; namely, the ignorance that is commonly among princes:

One shall ever be doing violence and wrong to another. The boy shall presume against the elder, and the vile person against the honorable.

Woe unto them that rise up early to use themselves in drunkenness, and yet at night are more superfluous with wine.

And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.

They make the king and the princes, to have pleasure in their wickedness and lies.

Do not thou triumph, O Israel; make no boasting more than the Heathen. For thou hast committed adultery against thy God: strange rewards hast thou loved, more than all the corn floors.

Ye are taken out for the evil day, even ye that sit in the stole of willfulness;

"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day.

And being in hell, in torments, he lift up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom;

Suffer afflictions: sorrow ye and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

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

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Through three things the earth is disquieted, and the fourth may it not bear:
And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day.
And the posts went in all the haste according to the king's commandment. And in the castle of Susa was the commandment devised. And the king and Haman sat and drank. But the city Susa was disquieted.
Woe unto them that rise up early to use themselves in drunkenness, and yet at night are more superfluous with wine.
And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.
They make the king and the princes, to have pleasure in their wickedness and lies.
Do not thou triumph, O Israel; make no boasting more than the Heathen. For thou hast committed adultery against thy God: strange rewards hast thou loved, more than all the corn floors.
Ye are taken out for the evil day, even ye that sit in the stole of willfulness;
"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day.
Suffer afflictions: sorrow ye and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

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Then Joab went to the king, and said, "What hast thou done? See, Abner came unto thee, why hast thou sent him away, that he should escape quite?
Another plague is there, which I have seen under the sun; namely, the ignorance that is commonly among princes:
One shall ever be doing violence and wrong to another. The boy shall presume against the elder, and the vile person against the honorable.

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I see servants ride upon horses, and princes going upon their feet as it were servants.
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