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Proverbs 19:10
Unseemly for a dullard, is delicate living, how much more for, a servant, to bear rule over princes.
Proverbs 19:10 · Rotherham Emphasised Bible
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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 brethren of a poor man, hate him, how much more have, his friends, gone far from him, he may hunt up promises—there are none.
8 He that acquireth sense, loveth his own soul, he that guardeth understanding, shall find blessing.
9 A false witness, shall not be held innocent, and, he that uttereth lies, shall perish.
10 Unseemly for a dullard, is delicate living, how much more for, a servant, to bear rule over princes.
11 The discretion of a man, deferreth his anger, and, his adorning, is to pass over transgression.
12 The growl as of a young lion, is the rage of a king, but, like dew upon the grass, is his good pleasure.
13 Engulfing ruin to his father, is a son that is a dullard,—and, a continuous dripping, are the contentions of a wife.
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