Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant
    than pretend to be somebody and have no food.

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(A)Better is the one who is [a]slighted but has a servant,
Than he who honors himself but lacks bread.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 12:9 lightly esteemed

But in that day(A) he will cry out,
    “I have no remedy.(B)
I have no food(C) or clothing in my house;
    do not make me the leader of the people.”(D)

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In that day he will protest, saying,
“I cannot cure your ills,
For in my house is neither food nor clothing;
Do not make me a ruler of the people.”

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