14 Bible Verses about Unsuitable Rule

It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.

When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.

And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.

And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them.

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!

My people--infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.

I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.

he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

For a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: "You have a cloak; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule"; in that day he will speak out, saying: "I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; you shall not make me leader of the people."

Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.'

Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.