SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:10
¶ No conviene al loco el deleite; ¡cuánto menos al siervo ser señor de los príncipes!
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 19:10
Verse 10. Delight is not seemly for a fool ] gwn[t taanug, splendid or luxurious living, rank, equipage, &c. These sit ill on a fool, though he be by birth a lord. For a servant to have rule over princes. ] I pity the king who delivers himself into the hands of his own ministers. Such a one loses his character, and cannnot be respected by his subjects, or rather their subjects. But it is still worse when a person of mean extraction is raised to the throne, or to any place of power; he is generally cruel and tyrannical.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. Delight is not seemly for a fool , etc.] Such an one as Nabal, whose name and nature were alike; and whose prosperity ill became him, and the mirth and delight he had in it, ( 1 Samuel 25:25,36); for, as the wise man elsewhere says, “the prosperity of fools shall destroy them”, ( Proverbs 1:26); they do not know how to make a right use of their prosperity; nor to moderate their enjoyments, pleasures, and delights.
Some understand this of spiritual delight in the Lord; in his ways and ordinances, which wicked men are strangers to: and a very uncomely thing it is for such persons to talk of spiritual joy and delight, and of their communion with God, when they live in sin; much less for a servant to have rule over princes ; this was a sight which Solomon had seen, but was very disagreeable to him; and was one of the four things the earth cannot bear; the insolence of a servant, when he becomes master over his superiors, is intolerable; see ( Proverbs 30:22 Ecclesiastes 10:7). It may be spiritually applied to such who are servants of sin; to whose sensual appetites and carnal affections the more noble and princely powers of the soul, the understanding and mind, become subject; which is very improper and unseemly.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10 - A man that has not wisdom and grace, has no right or title to true joy It is very unseemly for one who is a servant to sin, to oppress God' free-men.
Original Hebrew
לא 3808 נאוה 5000 לכסיל 3684 תענוג 8588 אף 637 כי 3588 לעבד 5650 משׁל 4910 בשׂרים׃ 8269
