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Proverbs 19:10
Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.
Proverbs 19:10 · Bible in Basic English
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Proverbs 19:10 in other translations
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Luxury is unseemly for a fool— how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
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In context
7 All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him!...
8 He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.
9 A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.
10 Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.
11 A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.
12 The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.
13 A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
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