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I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.
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A World Turned Upside Down
Commentators explain that this verse paints a vivid picture of social chaos and injustice. Seeing servants on horseback while princes walk was a shocking reversal of the expected order. It illustrates a key "evil under the sun": a world where leadership is foolish and people are not promoted based on merit or nobility, but on the whims of a ruler.
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Ecclesiastes
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The evil (Ecclesiastes 10:5) is here specified as that caprice of a king by which an unworthy favorite of humble origins is pr…
19th Century
Anglican
Considering that the importation of horses was a new thing in the reign of Solomon, we look on it as a mark of a later age that a noble should thin…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I have seen servants upon horses Which being scarce in Judea, were only rode upon by princes and great personages, o…
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