Księga Kaznodziei 10:7

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba

Widziałem niewolników jadących na koniach i książąt, którzy jak niewolnicy szli pieszo.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Widziałem sługi na koniech, a książęta chodzące pieszo jako służebniki.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Widziałem sługi na koniach, a książąt chodzących piechotą jako sługi.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Widziałem niewolników na rumakach, a przywódców chodzących pieszo, jako słudzy na ziemi.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Widziałem sługi na koniach, a książąt chodzących piechotą jako sługi.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Widziałem sługi na koniach, a książąt idących pieszo jak słudzy.

Biblia Warszawska
Widziałem niewolników na koniach, a książąt idących piechotą jak niewolnicy.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 19:10, Proverbs 30:22

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 15:17 - went forth Nehemiah 2:10 - the servant Ecclesiastes 10:17 - when Isaiah 23:7 - her own 2 Peter 2:10 - to speak

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have seen servants upon horses,.... Which being scarce in Judea, were only rode upon by princes and great personages, or such as were in affluent circumstances; and therefore it was an unusual and disagreeable sight to see servants upon them, which was a token of their being advanced upon the ruin and destruction of their masters; a reigning servant is not only uncomely, but one of the things by which the earth is disquieted, and it cannot bear, Proverbs 30:21; the Parthians and Persians distinguished their nobles and the vulgar, freemen and servants, by this; the servants went on foot, and the freemen rode on horses r;

and princes walking as servants upon the earth; degraded from their honour; banished from their thrones and palaces, or obliged to leave them, and reduced to the lowest state and condition: so David, when his son rebelled against him, and he was forced to flee from him, and walk on foot, 2 Samuel 15:30; Alshech thinks it may be a prophecy of the captivity of Israel, when they walked as servants on the earth, and the Gentiles rode on horses.

r Justin. e Trogo, l. 41. c. 3. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 5. c. 19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “evil” of Ecclesiastes 10:5 is here specified as that caprice of a king by which an unworthy favorite of low origin is promoted to successive dignities, while a noble person is degraded or neglected.