Proverbs 19:10

Delight. Luxury.

Related Commentaries of 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...
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 w...
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...
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 lux...
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 de...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Fool ] read, 'rich' ( Proverbs 28:6 ).
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 bec...
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 m...
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...
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 th...
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...
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 an...
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 ind...
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; becau...
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 f...
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...
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, re...
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 wh...
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...
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 possib...
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 ;...
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...

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

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 19:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 19:10