Proverbs 19:10

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Summary

Proverbs 19:10

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

Delight

Much

2 Samuel 3:24

Ecclesiastes 10:5

Isaiah 3:5

General references

Ecclesiastes 10:7

Bible References

Delight

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.

Much

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.

General references

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