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Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 19:10

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Proverbs19:10

10 Delight is not seemly for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes .

To live in Pleasure, and Plenty, and outward Glory.

Who is of a servile condition and disposition, not much differing from a Fool, who is a servant to his Lusts, and wholly unfit to rule other men.

i. e. Over men of better quality than himself: for servants are commonly ignorant, and when they are advanced they grow insolent, and presumptuous, and intolerable.

b It doth not become him, nor suit with him, partly because Prosperity corrupts even wise men, and makes fools mad, and partly because it gives him more opportunity to discover his folly, and to do mischief both to himself and others. He implies that a rod or punishment is fitter for him than pleasure, as is noted, Prov. 10. 13. & 26. 3.

Marginal references: Eccl. 10. 6.; Ch. 30. 22. Eccl. 10. 7.

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