Proverbs 19:10
Modern Translations
New International Version
It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury-- how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!

New Living Translation
It isn’t right for a fool to live in luxury or for a slave to rule over princes!

English Standard Version
It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.

Berean Study Bible
Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!

New American Standard Bible
Luxury is not fitting for a fool; Much less for a slave to rule over princes.

NASB 1995
Luxury is not fitting for a fool; Much less for a slave to rule over princes.

NASB 1977
Luxury is not fitting for a fool; Much less for a slave to rule over princes.

Amplified Bible
Luxury is not fitting for a fool; Much less for a slave to rule over princes.

Christian Standard Bible
Luxury is not appropriate for a fool — how much less for a slave to rule over princes!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Luxury is not appropriate for a fool-- how much less for a slave to rule over princes!

Contemporary English Version
It isn't right for a fool to live in luxury or for a slave to rule in place of a king.

Good News Translation
Fools should not live in luxury, and slaves should not rule over noblemen.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Luxury does not fit a fool, much less a slave ruling princes.

International Standard Version
It's not fitting for a fool to live in luxury; neither is it for a servant to rule over princes.

NET Bible
Luxury is not appropriate for a fool; how much less for a servant to rule over princes!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

New King James Version
Luxury is not fitting for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule over princes.

King James 2000 Bible
Luxury is not fitting for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

New Heart English Bible
Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

World English Bible
Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

American King James Version
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

American Standard Version
Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

A Faithful Version
Living in luxury is not becoming for a fool, much less for a slave to have rule over princes.

Darby Bible Translation
Good living beseemeth not a fool; how much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

English Revised Version
Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Webster's Bible Translation
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Pleasure is not comely for a foole, much lesse for a seruant to haue rule ouer princes.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Pleasure is not seemely for a foole: muche lesse for a bondman to haue rule of princes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Delicate ease becometh not a foole, moch more vnsemely is it, a bonde man to haue ye rule of prynces.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Luxury is not fitting for a fool, "" Much less for a servant to rule among princes.

Young's Literal Translation
Luxury is not comely for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule among princes.

Smith's Literal Translation
Delight is not becoming to the foolish one; much less for a servant to rule over chiefs.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Fine things are not fitting for the foolish, nor is it fitting for a servant to rule over princes.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
A delicacy is not fitting for a fool, neither for a Servant to rule among princes.

Lamsa Bible
To live in luxury is not fitting for a fool; much less is it seemly for a servant to rule over princes.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Luxury is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Delight does not suit a fool, nor is it seemly if a servant should begin to rule with haughtiness.
















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