Proverbs 19:10 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 19. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 19:10

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 19:10: Note, 1. Pleasure and liberty ill become a fool: Delight is not seemly for such a one. A man that has not wisdom and grace has no right nor title to true joy, and therefore it is unseemly. It ill becomes those that do not delight in God to delight in any thing, nor how to manage themselves, and therefore they do but expose themselves.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 19:10: Delight is not seemly for a fool,.... 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, Sa1 25:25; for, as the wise man elsewhere says, "the prosperity of fools shall destroy them", Pro 1:26; they do not know how to make a right use of their prosperity; nor...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 19:10: (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).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 19:10: Delight is not proper for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. (c) The free use of things are not to be permitted to him who cannot use them correctly.