Proverbs 19:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Proverbs 19:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  “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 pr...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (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.

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• Proverbs 19:10 - 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 1...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Delight . Luxury.

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• Proverbs 19:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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 - תענוג taanug, splendid or luxurious living, rank, equipage, etc. These sit ill...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - 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...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

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• Proverbs 19:10 - 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...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - 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...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - 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 l...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - 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...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - 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. Healt...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - 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 fo...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.       Note, 1. Pleasure and liberty ill become a fool: Delight is not seemly for such a one. A man...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - 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...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - 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...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 signifies "poor" in oppositi...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 25:36 ; 2 Samuel 3:24 ; 2 Samuel 3:25 ; 2 Samuel 3:39 ; Amos 6:3-6 ; Ecclesiastes 10:5-7 ; Esther 3:15 ; Hosea 7:3-5 ; Hosea 9:1 ; Isaiah 22:12-14 ; Isaiah 3:5 ; Isaiah 5:11 ; I...

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• Proverbs 19:10 - 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...

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