The Pulpit Commentary - Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have seen servants upon horses. A further description of the effect of the tyrant's perversion of equity. Such an allusion could not have been made in Solomon's reign, when the importation of horses was quite a new thing ( 1 Kings 10:28 ). Later, to ride upon horses was a distinction of the nobility ( Jeremiah 17:25 ). Thus Amaziah's corpse was brought on horses to be buried in the city of David ( 2 Chronicles 25:28 ): Mordecai was honored by being taken round the city on the king's... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Ecclesiastes 10:6
Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place . This is an instance of the error intimated in the preceding verse. A tyrannical ruler exalts incompetent persons, unworthy favorites, to "great heights", as it is literally—puts them into eminent positions. "Folly" is abstract for concrete, "fools." And the rich sit in low place . "The rich" ( ashirim ) are not simply those who have wealth, however obtained, but men of noble birth; ἀρχαιόπλουτοι , as Plumptre... read more