Proverbs 30:22

Good News Translation

a slave who becomes a king, a fool who has all he wants to eat,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
a servant when he becomes king,a fool when he is stuffed with food,

Hebrew Names Version
For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;

King James Version
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

English Standard Version
a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;

New American Standard Bible
Under a slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,

New Century Version
a servant who becomes a king, a foolish person who has plenty to eat,

Amplified Bible
Under a servant when he reigns, Under a [spiritually blind] fool when he is filled with food,

World English Bible
For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;

Geneva Bible (1587)
For a seruant when he reigneth, & a foole when he is filled with meate,

Legacy Standard Bible
Under a slave when he becomes king,And a wicked fool when he is satisfied with food,

Berean Standard Bible
a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

Contemporary English Version
A slave who becomes king, a fool who eats too much,

Complete Jewish Bible
a slave who becomes king, a boor gorged with food,

Darby Translation
Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;

Easy-to-Read Version
a slave who becomes a king, fools who have everything they need,

George Lamsa Translation
Under a servant when he reigns: and under a fool when he is filled with bread;

Lexham English Bible
under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied with food;

Literal Translation
Under a servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with food,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thorow a seruaut yt beareth rule, thorow a foole yt hath greate riches,

American Standard Version
For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;

Bible in Basic English
A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl when he is filled with food;

King James Version (1611)
For a seruant when he reigneth, and a foole when hee is filled with meate:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
A seruaunt that beareth rule, a foole that is full fedde,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.

English Revised Version
For a servant when he is king; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
bi a seruaunt, whanne he regneth; bi a fool, whanne he is fillid with mete;

Update Bible Version
For a slave when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;

Webster's Bible Translation
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with food.

New English Translation
under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food,

New King James Version
For a servant when he reigns, A fool when he is filled with food,

New Living Translation
a slave who becomes a king, an overbearing fool who prospers,

New Life Bible
Under a servant when he becomes king, under a fool when he is filled with food,

New Revised Standard
a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when glutted with food;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Under a servant, when he reigneth, and a base man, when he is surfeited with food;

Douay-Rheims Bible
By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:

Revised Standard Version
a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;

Young's Literal Translation
For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Under a slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ There are four things that are too mysterious for me to understand: ¹⁹ an eagle flying in the sky, a snake moving on a rock, a ship finding its way over the sea, and a man and a woman falling in love. ²⁰ This is how an unfaithful wife acts: she commits adultery, takes a bath, and says, "But I haven't done anything wrong!" ²¹ There are four things that the earth itself cannot tolerate: ²² a slave who becomes a king, a fool who has all he wants to eat, ²³ a hateful woman who gets married, and a servant woman who takes the place of her mistress.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a servant: Proverbs 19:10, Proverbs 28:3, Ecclesiastes 10:7, Isaiah 3:4, Isaiah 3:5

a fool: 1 Samuel 25:3, 1 Samuel 25:10, 1 Samuel 25:11, 1 Samuel 25:25, 1 Samuel 25:36-38, 1 Samuel 30:16

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 2:10 - the servant Proverbs 26:8 - so Proverbs 29:19 - servant Lamentations 5:8 - Servants

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
God had not forgotten Noah and all the animals with him in the boat; he caused a wind to blow, and the water started going down.

Genesis 25:21
Because Rebecca had no children, Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord answered his prayer, and Rebecca became pregnant.

Genesis 30:1
But Rachel had not borne Jacob any children, and so she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."

Genesis 30:2
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "I can't take the place of God. He is the one who keeps you from having children."

Genesis 30:19
Leah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

Genesis 30:20
She said, "God has given me a fine gift. Now my husband will accept me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she named him Zebulun.

Psalms 105:42
He remembered his sacred promise to Abraham his servant.

Psalms 113:9
He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the Lord !

Psalms 127:3
Children are a gift from the Lord ; they are a real blessing.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For a servant, when he reigneth,.... Being unfit for it through his education, not having been trained up in and learned the arts of government and maxims of it; and through the disposition of his mind, which is mean, abject, and servile; and as he has been used himself when a servant, so he will use others c and through his circumstances, being poor, he will take oppressive methods to become rich; and being raised from a low estate, he is the more imperious, proud, and haughty d; all which and more make his reign intolerable; see Proverbs 19:10. This may be applied to antichrist, the "servus servorum", who in a haughty, tyrannical, and insolent manner, exalts himself above all that is called God: and reigns over the kings of the earth, at least has done so, and that in such a manner as was unbearable; deposing kings at pleasure, disposing of their kingdoms, and trampling upon their necks, and making their subjects his vassals; see 2 Thessalonians 2:4;

and a fool, when he is filled with meat; as Nabal at his feast, when he behaved so intolerably in his cups towards David and his messengers, that he determined on his destruction, had not Abigail interposed,

1 Samuel 25:10; and there are many such fools, who having their bellies full of food, and their heads full of liquor, are very overbearing in company, and give their tongues such a loose as is very disturbing: or this may intend such fools, or wicked men, who are full of wealth and riches, and being purse proud, are exceeding haughty and insolent; set their mouths against the heaven, and blaspheme God that is in it; and their tongues walk through the earth, and spare none, but lash all in an insufferable manner. These disquiet families, neighbourhoods, communities, and commonwealths; see Psalms 73:7.

c "Nec bellua tetrior ulla est, quam servi rabies in libera colla furentis", Claudian. in Eutrop. l. 1. v. 183, 184. d "Asperius nihil est humili, cum surgit in altum", Claudian. ib. v. 181.