14 Bible Verses about Unsuitable Rule

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

For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge its state shall be prolonged.

And it yields much increase unto the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

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

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have authority over the man, but to be in silence.

And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.

And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them.

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, you have clothing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand: In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.

But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness, and then it was well with him?