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

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A ruler[a] who oppresses the poor
    is like a driving rain that leaves no crops.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:3 Or A poor person

A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

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