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
Much less for a
King James Version
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Holman Bible
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.
Themes
Citizens » Wicked and treasonable
Delight » Who delight is not seemly for
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 19:10
Verse Info
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.
Phrases
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.