Proverbs 19:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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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Cross-References

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Proverbs 30:21-22
For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: …
Proverbs 26:1
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
James 4:9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
Isaiah 22:12-14
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: …

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Commentary

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

(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…

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

(vv. 10)

10. (Compare Pr 17:7). The fool is incapable of properly using pleasure as knowledge, yet for him to have it is less incongruous than the undue elevation of servants. Let each abide in his calling (1Co 7:20).