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

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10 It is not fitting for a fool(A) to live in luxury—
    how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!(B)

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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.

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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.

Fools are put in many high positions,(A)
    while the rich occupy the low ones.
I have seen slaves on horseback,
    while princes go on foot like slaves.(B)

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