Provérbios 19:10

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

Ao insensato no convm a vida regalada, quanto menos ao escravo dominar os prncipes!

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Ao tolo no certo gozar de deleites; quanto menos ao servo dominar sobre os prncipes!

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Ao tolo no est bem o deleite; quanto menos ao servo dominar os prncipes!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Delight: Proverbs 30:21, Proverbs 30:22, 1 Samuel 25:36, Esther 3:15, Isaiah 5:11, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 22:12-14, Hosea 7:3-5, Hosea 9:1, Amos 6:3-6, Luke 16:19, Luke 16:23, James 4:9

much: 2 Samuel 3:24, 2 Samuel 3:25, 2 Samuel 3:39, Ecclesiastes 10:5-7, Isaiah 3:5

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:6 - thou regardest Proverbs 26:8 - so Ecclesiastes 10:7 - General

Gill's Notes on the 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 wise man elsewhere says, "the prosperity of fools shall destroy them", Proverbs 1:26; they do not know how to make a right use of their prosperity; nor to moderate their enjoyments, pleasures, and delights. Some understand this of spiritual delight in the Lord; in his ways and ordinances, which wicked men are strangers to: and a very uncomely thing it is for such persons to talk of spiritual joy and delight, and of their communion with God, when they live in sin;

much less for a servant to have rule over princes; this was a sight which Solomon had seen, but was very disagreeable to him; and was one of the four things the earth cannot bear; the insolence of a servant, when he becomes master over his superiors, is intolerable; see

Proverbs 30:22. It may be spiritually applied to such who are servants of sin; to whose sensual appetites and carnal affections the more noble and princely powers of the soul, the understanding and mind, become subject; which is very improper and unseemly.

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 presented, the objectionable rule of some favored slave, it might be, of alien birth, over the princes and nobles of the land.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 to have rule over princes. — I pity the king who delivers himself into the hands of his own ministers. Such a one loses his character, and cannot be respected by his subjects, or rather their subjects. But it is still worse when a person of mean extraction is raised to the throne, or to any place of power he is generally cruel and tyrannical.