Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Delight is not becoming to the foolish one; much less for a servant to rule over chiefs.

New American Standard Bible

Luxury is not fitting for a fool;
Much less for a slave to rule over princes.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Luxury is not appropriate for a fool
how much less for a slave to rule over princes!

International Standard Version

It's not fitting for a fool to live in luxury; neither is it for a servant to rule over princes.

A Conservative Version

Luxurious living is not fitting for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over rulers.

American Standard Version

Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Amplified


Luxury is not fitting for a fool;
Much less for a slave to rule over princes.

Bible in Basic English

Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.

Darby Translation

Good living beseemeth not a fool; how much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

King James 2000

Luxury is not fitting for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For a fool living in luxury is not fitting, [any] more [than it is] for a slave to rule over princes.

Modern King James verseion

Luxury is not becoming for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

Luxury is not appropriate for a fool; how much less for a servant to rule over princes!

New Heart English Bible

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

The Emphasized Bible

Unseemly for dullard, is delicate living, how much more for, a servant, to bear rule over princes.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Youngs Literal Translation

Luxury is not comely for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule among princes.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
תּענגה תּענג תּענוּג 
Ta`anuwg 
Usage: 5

is not seemly
נאוה 
Na'veh 
Usage: 10

for a fool
כּסיל 
K@ciyl 
Usage: 70

עבד 
`ebed 
Usage: 800

to have rule
משׁל 
Mashal 
Usage: 81

References

Hastings

Context Readings

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

9 A witness of falsehoods shall not be unpunished, and he breathing out lies shall perish. 10 Delight is not becoming to the foolish one; much less for a servant to rule over chiefs. 11 The understanding of man will defer his anger: and his glory to pass over transgression.



Cross References

Proverbs 26:1

As snow in summer and as rain in harvest., so honor not becoming to the foolish one.

Proverbs 30:21-22

For three the earth was moved, and for four, which it shall not be able to lift up:

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail will go to Nabal; and behold, to him a drinking in his house as the drinking of a king; and Nabal's heart good with him, and he was intoxicated even greatly; and she announced not to him a word small and great till the light of the morning.

2 Samuel 3:24-25

And Joab will come to the king and he will say, What didst thou? behold, Abner came to thee; wherefore this thou sentest him away, and going, he went?

2 Samuel 3:39

And I this day tender, and being anointed king; and these men sons of Zeruiah, hard for me. Jehovah will recompense to him doing evil according to his evil.

Esther 3:15

And they running went forth, being impelled by the word of the king, and the edict was given in Shushan the fortress. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; and the city Shushan was disquieted.

Proverbs 17:7

The lip of excellence is not becoming to, the foolish one: much less the lip. of falsehood to the noble one.

Ecclesiastes 10:5-7

There is an evil I saw under the sun as an error going forth from before him having power:

Isaiah 3:5

And the people were pressed, man by man, and a man by his neighbor: the boy shall enlarge himself against the old man and the despised against the honorable.

Isaiah 5:11-12

Wo to those rising early in the morning, they will follow strong drink; remaining in the evening, wine will inflame them.

Isaiah 22:12-14

And the Lord Jehovah of armies in that day will call to weeping and to wailing, and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:

Hosea 7:3-5

By their evil they will gladden the king, and the chiefs by their falsehoods.

Hosea 9:1

Thou shalt not rejoice, O Israel; exult not as the peoples: for thou didst commit fornication from thy God; thou didst love a gift upon all the threshing-floors of grain.

Amos 6:3-6

Extending to the evil day, and ye will bring near the seat of violence;

Luke 16:19

A certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, being daily splendidly gladdened:

Luke 16:23

And in hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham from far off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

James 4:9

Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection.

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