Proverbs 19:10

“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, (<092525>1 Samuel 25:25,36); for, as the wise man elsewhere says, “the prosperity of fools shall destroy them”, (<200126>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…”

“(Compare Pro 17:7). The fool is incapable of properly using pleasure as knowledge, yet for him to have it is less incongruous than the undue elevation of servants. Let each abide in his calling (Co1 7:20).”

““Delight,” high unrestrained enjoyment, is to the “fool” who lacks wisdom but a temptation and a snare. The second clause carries the thought on to what the despotism of Eastern monarchies often presented, the objectionable rule of some favored slave, it might be, of alien birth, over the princes and nobles of the land. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Delight - To live in pleasure and outward glory, doth not become him, nor suit with him; because prosperity corrupts even wise men, and makes fools mad; and because it gives him more opportunity to discover his folly, and to do mischief both to himself and others. Proverbs 19:13”

“Delight: Pro 30:21, Pro 30:22; Sa1 25:36; Est 3:15; Isa 5:11, Isa 5:12, Isa 22:12-14; Hos 7:3-5, Hos 9:1; Amo 6:3-6; Luk 16:19, Luk 16:23; Jam 4:9 much: Sa2 3:24, Sa2 3:25, Sa2 3:39; Ecc 10:5-7; Isa 3:5 Proverbs 19:11”

“10 Luxury becometh not a fool; How much less a servant to rule over princes. Thus also with לא נאוה (3 p. Pil. non decet, cf. the adj. Pro 26:1) Pro 17:7 begins. אף כּי rises here, as at Pro 19:7, a minori ad majus: how much more is it unbecoming = how much less is it seemly. The contrast in the last case is, however, more rugged, and the expression harsher. "A fool cannot bear luxury: he becomes by it yet more foolish; one who was previously a humble slave, but who has attained by good fortune a place of prominence and power, from being something good, becomes at once something bad: an insolent sceleratus" (Fl.). Agur, xxx. 22f., describes such a homo novus as an unbearable calamity; and…”