Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Delicate ease becometh not a fool; much more unseemly is it, a bond man to have the rule of princes.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Delight is not becoming to the foolish one; much less for a servant to rule over chiefs.
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.
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
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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 false witness shall not remain unpunished; and he that speaketh lies shall perish. 10 Delicate ease becometh not a fool; much more unseemly is it, a bond man to have the rule of princes. 11 A wise man putteth off displeasure, and it is his honour to let some faults pass.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 26:1
Like as snow is not mete in summer, nor rain in harvest; even so is worship unseemly for a fool.
Proverbs 30:21-22
Through three things the earth is disquieted, and the fourth may it not bear:
1 Samuel 25:36
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.
2 Samuel 3:24-25
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?
2 Samuel 3:39
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."
Esther 3:15
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.
Proverbs 17:7
An eloquent speech becometh not a fool; much less a lying mouth, then, becometh a prince.
Ecclesiastes 10:5-7
Another plague is there, which I have seen under the sun; namely, the ignorance that is commonly among princes:
Isaiah 3:5
One shall ever be doing violence and wrong to another. The boy shall presume against the elder, and the vile person against the honorable.
Isaiah 5:11-12
Woe unto them that rise up early to use themselves in drunkenness, and yet at night are more superfluous with wine.
Isaiah 22:12-14
And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.
Hosea 7:3-5
They make the king and the princes, to have pleasure in their wickedness and lies.
Hosea 9:1
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.
Amos 6:3-6
Ye are taken out for the evil day, even ye that sit in the stole of willfulness;
Luke 16:19
"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day.
Luke 16:23
And being in hell, in torments, he lift up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom;
James 4:9
Suffer afflictions: sorrow ye and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.