Ecclesiastes 10:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:10 : 10 Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
  • Prov 30:22 : 22 For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;
  • Esth 6:8 : 8 let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a crown royal is set:

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  • Eccl 10:5-6
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    5There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.

    6Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

  • 10Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

  • Prov 25:6-7
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    6Don't exalt yourself in the presence of the king, Or claim a place among great men;

    7For it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," Than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, Whom your eyes have seen.

  • 40He pours contempt on princes, And causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

  • 9Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, Than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

  • Eccl 5:8-9
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    8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

    9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

  • 8He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

  • Eccl 8:9-10
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    9All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

    10So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

  • Job 3:14-15
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    14With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

    15Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

  • 22For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;

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    16Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, And your princes eat in the morning!

    17Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, And your princes eat in due season, For strength, and not for drunkenness!

  • 7The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

  • 10The helpless are crushed, they collapse, They fall under his strength.

  • 3I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

  • 10I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

  • 19Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.

  • 11Kings of the earth and all peoples; Princes and all judges of the earth;

  • 10Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

  • 34He sees everything that is high: He is king over all the sons of pride."

  • 10Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, You who sit on rich carpets, You who walk by the way.

  • 8That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.

  • 1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

  • 4I will give boys to be their princes, And children shall rule over them.

  • 29Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings; He won't serve obscure men.

  • 6Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

  • 10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

  • 12Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

  • 7I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem;

  • 9Surely men of low degree are just a breath, And men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

  • 7When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street,

  • 13I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

  • 1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

  • 8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

  • 8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

  • 7Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, Much less do lying lips fit a prince.

  • 21He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.

  • 8He raises up the poor out of the dust, He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, Inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's, He has set the world on them.

  • 21He pours contempt on princes, And loosens the belt of the strong.

  • 11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • 23who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

  • 7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

  • 4For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

  • 12Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, And the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

  • 3They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.