14 Bible Verses about Unsuitable Rule

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

By the rebellion of a land, her rulers increase, but by a person of intelligence who knows justice, it will last.

Its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have given over us because of our sins, and [they are] ruling over our dead bodies and our livestock at their pleasure. We are in great trouble.

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

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

My people--children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading [you], and they confuse the course of your paths.

But I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, but {to remain quiet}.

And I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated {before} your enemies; and your haters shall rule over you, and you shall flee away, but there shall not be {anybody who is pursuing} you.

Then he gave them into [the] hand of [the] nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

The rich will rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave of {the lender}.

Indeed, a man will seize his brother [in] the house of his father: "{You have a cloak}; you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins [shall be] under your hand!" He will lift up [his voice] on that day, saying, "I will not be a healer; in my house there is no bread and there is no cloak. You shall not make me [the] leader of [the] people!"

Slaves rule over us; there is no one 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 be king over us!'

Do you reign as king because you [are] competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and he did justice and righteousness, then it was well with him?