◄ Ecclesiastes 10:7 ►
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Good News Translation
I have seen slaves on horseback while noblemen go on foot like slaves.

New Revised Standard Version
I have seen slaves on horseback, and princes walking on foot like slaves.

Contemporary English Version
they let slaves ride on horses, but force slave owners to walk.

New American Bible
I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes went on foot like slaves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.

Proverbs 19:10 Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes.

Proverbs 30:22 By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:

Context
Wisdom and Folly
…6A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath. 7I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.8He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.…
Cross References
Esther 6:8
Ought to be clothed with the king's apparel, and to be set upon the horse that the king rideth upon, and to have the royal crown upon his head,

Proverbs 19:10
Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes.

Proverbs 30:22
By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:

Ecclesiastes 10:6
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