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

For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four -- it is not able to bear:

And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal is glad within him, and he is drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.

The runners have gone forth, hastened by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace, and the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan is perplexed.

Woe to those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!

And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,

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

'Rejoice not, O Israel, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn.

Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,

And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

Much

And Joab cometh unto the king, and saith, 'What hast thou done? lo, Abner hath come unto thee! why is this -- thou hast sent him away, and he is really gone?

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error that goeth out from the ruler,

And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

General references

I have seen servants on horses, And princes walking as servants on the earth.