Add parallel Print Page Options

10 Luxury is not befitting a fool;
    much less should a slave rule over princes.

Read full chapter

a fool put in high position, while the great and the rich sit in lowly places. I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes[a] went on foot like slaves.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 10:6–7 A fool…the rich…slaves…princes: another wisdom motif: astonishment at the reversal of the usual order in the world and in human affairs.