“Delight,” high unrestrained enjoyment, is to the “fool” who lacks wisdom only a temptation and a snare. The second clause extends the thought to w…

Delight is not seemly for a fool.— He is ruined by prosperity and luxury: much more is a slave unfit to rule over princes…

Delight is not seemly for a fool Such an one as Nabal, whose name and nature were alike; and whose prosperity ill became …

A man who lacks wisdom and grace has no right or title to true joy. It is very unfitting for one who is a servant to sin to oppress God's free peop…