Ecclesiastes 10:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

Ecclesiastes 10:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 28:12
When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Proverbs 29:2
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Esther 3:1
After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
1 Kings 12:13-14
And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-11)

The scope of these verses is to keep subjects loyal and dutiful to the government. In Solomon’s reign the people were very rich, and lived in prosperity, which perhaps made them proud and petulant, and when the taxes were high, though they had enough to pay them with, it is probable that many conducted themselves insolently towards the government and threatened to rebel. To such Solomon here gives…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. rich--not in mere wealth, but in wisdom, as the antithesis to “folly” (for “foolish men”) shows. So Hebrew, rich, equivalent to “liberal,” in a good sense (Is 32:5). Mordecai and Haman (Es 3:1, 2; 6:6-11).