Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool; Much less do lying lips a prince.
Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool - This proverb is suitable to those who affect, in public speaking, fine language, which neither comports with their ordinary conversation, nor with their education. Often fine words are injudiciously brought in, and are as unbecoming and irrelevant as a cart wheel among clockwork.
The margin renderings are more literal and give greater emphasis. What is pointed out is not the unfitness of lying lips for the princely-hearted, but the necessity of harmony, in each case, between character and speech.
17:7 Excellent speech - Discourse of high and excellent things.