Luxury is unseemly for a fool--how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
Cross References
Proverbs 17:7Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
Proverbs 26:1Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.
Proverbs 30:22a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
Ecclesiastes 10:6Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions.
Ecclesiastes 10:7I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.
Treasury of Scripture
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
delight
Proverbs 30:21,22
For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: …
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
Esther 3:15
The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
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2 Samuel 3:24,25,39
Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone? …
Ecclesiastes 10:5-7
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: …
Isaiah 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
