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10Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Proverbs 19:10

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 10)

Note, 1. Pleasure and liberty ill become a fool: Delight is not seemly for such a one. A man that has not wisdom and grace has no right nor title to true joy, and therefore it is unseemly. It ill becomes those that do not delight in God to delight in any thing, nor how to manage themselves, and therefore they do but expose themselves. It becomes ungracious fools to be afflicted, and mourn, and wee...

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