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Proverbs 19:10

In the first line, the fool is someone who hates wisdom. He should suffer for his evil actions, but this fool does not suffer. Instead, he lives in luxury. Solomon thinks that this is terrible.

In the second line, a prince rules a country. However, the prince is unhappy, because he has a secret. The prince is afraid of his slave. The slave controls the prince. Solomon says that this is even worse.

Solomon was a king. Perhaps he knew this prince and his slave. We do not know who they were. But Solomon seems to write about them again in Ecclesiastes 6:1-3 and Ecclesiastes 10:5-7.

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See also Proverbs 19:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 19:10. _DELIGHT IS NOT SEEMLY FOR A FOOL_] תענוג _taanug_, splendid or luxurious living, rank, equipage, c. These sit ill on a _fool_, though he be by birth a _lord_. _FOR A SERVANT T...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    “Delight,” high unrestrained enjoyment, is to the “fool” who lacks wisdom but a temptation and a snare. The second clause carries the thought on to what the despotism of Eastern monarchies often prese...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 19:1-19 FURTHER PROVERBS ON PERSONAL INSTRUCTION One may be poor, but walking in integrity, he is far ahead of him who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Then we find proverbs about frett...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. PROVERBS 19:1. FOO...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DELIGHT. Luxury....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _delight_ Rather, LUXURY, or DELICATE LIVING, R.V. οὐ συμφέρει ἄφρονι τρυφὴ, LXX. Comp. οἱ ἐν τρυφῇ ὑπάρχοντες ἐν τοῖς βασιλείοις εἰσίν, Luke 7:25; as "a servant" would be if he had "rule over princes...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER 19 TEXT Proverbs 19:1-10 1. Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool. 2. Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good;...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. DELIGHT IS NOT SEEMLY FOR A FOOL. A life of luxurious delights sometimes makes wise men into fools; but it makes...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    19:10 living (a-2) Or 'Luxury.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DELIGHT] RV 'delicate living.' He cannot appreciate refinement. Slaves have often risen to great power in the East: the danger is that they may become like the Felix of Acts 23, who was said to exerci...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. FOOL] read, 'rich' (Proverbs 28:6)....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DELIGHT IS NOT SEEMLY FOR A FOOL. — He is ruined by prosperity and luxury: much more is a slave unfit to rule over princes. The writer has in his mind the case of an emancipated slave being raised to...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹֽא ־נָאוֶ֣ה לִ כְסִ֣יל תַּעֲנ֑וּג אַ֝֗ף כִּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb in th...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Verse Proverbs 19:7. This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been lost...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (c) Delight is not proper for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. (c) The free use of things are not to be permitted to him who cannot use them correctly....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fool. He would eat them, so as to prejudice his health. --- Princes. Chap. xxx. 21. Such are commonly insolent, and should attend to Ausonius. Fortunam reverenter habe._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. The king's wrath is...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    DELIGHT IS NOT SEEMLY FOR A FOOL,.... Such an one as Nabal, whose name and nature were alike; and whose prosperity ill became him, and the mirth and delight he had in it, 1 Samuel 25:25; for, as the w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. Ver. 10. _Delight is not seemly for a fool._] _Dignitas in indigno est ornamentum in luto,_ saith Salvian. Health,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 19:10. _Delight is not seemly for a fool_ To live in affluence, pleasure, and outward glory, doth not become him, nor suit with him; because prosperity corrupts even wise men, and makes fools...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    V. 10. DELIGHT IS NOT SEEMLY FOR A FOOL, a life of luxury does not become him, much less for a servant to have rule over princes, this being possible at courts where the favorites of the sovereign ing...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DELIGHT, to live in pleasure, and plenty, and outward glory, IS NOT SEEMLY FOR A FOOL; it doth not become him, nor suit with him; partly because prosperity corrupts even wise men, and makes fools mad;...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 19:10 Luxury H8588 fitting H5000 fool H3684 servant H5650 rule H4910 (H8800) princes H8269 Delight -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If we keep God's Word, God's Word will keep us from all things that are really hurtful. Those who despise the ways of His W...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 19:1. _Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,_ in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of me...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 19:10 DELIGHT. Most commentators translate this word “_luxury_.” Miller, however, as will be seen from his comment, retains the reading of the English version. _MAIN HOMILE...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 19:1 BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKTH IN HIS INTEGRITY. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 19:22, _rash, _which signifie

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Better is the poor that walks in his integrity [or in honesty], than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 25:36; 2 Samuel 3:24; 2 Samuel 3:25; 2 Samuel 3:39; Amos 6:3

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Delight — To live in pleasure and outward glory, doth not become him, nor suit with him; because prosperity corrupts even wise men, and makes fools mad; and because it gives him more opportunity to di...

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