Verse 10

Luxury is not comely for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule among princes.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 26:1 : 1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour `is' not comely for a fool.
  • Prov 30:21-22 : 21 For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four -- it is not able to bear: 22 For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,
  • Eccl 10:5-7 : 5 There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error that goeth out from the ruler, 6 He hath set the fool in many high places, And the rich in a low place do sit. 7 I have seen servants on horses, And princes walking as servants on the earth.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.
  • Isa 5:11-12 : 11 Wo `to' those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them! 12 And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.
  • Isa 22:12-14 : 12 And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth, 13 And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. 14 And revealed it hath been in mine ears, `By' Jehovah of Hosts: Not pardoned is this iniquity to you, Till ye die, said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.
  • Hos 7:3-5 : 3 With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes. 4 All of them `are' adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening. 5 A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves `with' the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.
  • Hos 9:1 : 1 `Rejoice not, O Israel, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn.
  • Amos 6:3-6 : 3 Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence, 4 Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall, 5 Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music; 6 Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And `with' chief perfumes anoint `themselves', And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 `And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,
  • Luke 16:23 : 23 and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,
  • Jas 4:9 : 9 be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;
  • 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal `is' glad within him, and he `is' drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.
  • 2 Sam 3:24-25 : 24 And Joab cometh unto the king, and saith, `What hast thou done? lo, Abner hath come unto thee! why `is' this -- thou hast sent him away, and he is really gone? 25 Thou hast known Abner son of Ner, that to deceive thee he came, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou art doing.'
  • 2 Sam 3:39 : 39 and I to-day `am' tender, and an anointed king: and these men, sons of Zeruiah, `are' too hard for me; Jehovah doth recompense to the doer of the evil according to his evil.'
  • Esth 3:15 : 15 The runners have gone forth, hastened by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace, and the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan is perplexed.
  • Prov 17:7 : 7 Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.