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Proverbs 19:10
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Proverbs 19:10 · King James Version
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Proverbs 19:10 in other translations
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.
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 brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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