Proverbs 12:9
9 Better to be an ordinary person with a servant than to be self-important but have no food.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 12:9
Commentary on Proverbs 12:9
(Read Proverbs 12:9)
He that lives in a humble state, who has no one to wait upon him, but gets bread by his own labour, is happier than he that glories in high birth or gay attire, and wants necessaries.