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Proverbs 30:22

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gluttony;   Riddle;   Rulers;   Servant;   Wife;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Exaltation;   Exaltation-Abasement;   Promotion;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Servants;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Proverb, the Book of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Servants;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agur;   Jakeh;   Massa;   Proverb;   Proverbs, Book of;   Slave, Slavery;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Under a slave when he becomes king,And a wicked fool when he is satisfied with food,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Under a slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A seruaunt that beareth rule, a foole that is full fedde,
Darby Translation
Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;
New King James Version
For a servant when he reigns, A fool when he is filled with food,
Literal Translation
Under a servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with food,
Easy-to-Read Version
a slave who becomes a king, fools who have everything they need,
King James Version (1611)
For a seruant when he reigneth, and a foole when hee is filled with meate:
King James Version
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thorow a seruaut yt beareth rule, thorow a foole yt hath greate riches,
Amplified Bible
Under a servant when he reigns, Under a [spiritually blind] fool when he is filled with food,
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;
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,
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,
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;
Hebrew Names Version
For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl 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,
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;
Berean Standard Bible
a servant who becomes king, a fool who 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:
Lexham English Bible
under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied with food;
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,
Good News Translation
a slave who becomes a king, a fool who has all he wants to eat,
Christian Standard Bible®
a servant when he becomes king, a fool when he is stuffed with food,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
bi a seruaunt, whanne he regneth; bi a fool, whanne he is fillid with mete;
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,

Contextual Overview

18 "There are three things which are too amazing for me, Four which I don't understand: 19 The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent on a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden. 20 So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, 'I have done nothing wrong.' 21 "For three things the earth tremble, And under four, it can't bear up: 22 For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food; 23 For an unloved woman when she is married; And a handmaid who is heir to 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 remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
Genesis 25:21
Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."
Genesis 30:2
Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
Genesis 30:19
Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
Genesis 30:20
Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
Psalms 105:42
For he remembered his holy word, And Abraham, his servant.
Psalms 113:9
He settles the barren woman in her home, As a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
Psalms 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his 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.


 
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