Proverbs 30:22

The NET Bible®

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
For a servant when he reigneth; and a 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;

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

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

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

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

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,

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;

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,

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:

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;

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

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

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

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;

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.

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;

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ There are three things that are too wonderful for me, four that I do not understand: ¹⁹ the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman. ²⁰ This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, "I have not done wrong." ²¹ Under three things the earth trembles, and under four things it cannot bear up: ²² under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food, ²³ under an unloved woman who is married, and under a female servant who dispossesses 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
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

Genesis 25:21
Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children or I'll die!"

Genesis 30:2
Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"

Genesis 30:19
Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time.

Genesis 30:20
Then Leah said, "God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.

Psalms 105:42
Yes, he remembered the sacred promise he made to Abraham his servant.

Psalms 113:9
He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord !

Psalms 127:3
Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord , the fruit of the womb is a reward.

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.