"For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;" — Proverbs 30:22

Proverbs 30:22 · KJV

“For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;”

— Proverbs 30:22

Verse 21

For three {things} the earth is disquieted, and for four {which} it cannot bear:

Verse 23

For an odious {woman} when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

Proverbs 30 — Context

Such {is} the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

For three {things} the earth is disquieted, and for four {which} it cannot bear:

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

For an odious {woman} when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

There be four {things which are} little upon the earth, but they {are} exceeding wise: {exceeding...: Heb. wise, made wise}

Cross References

Proverbs 19:10

Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Ecclesiastes 10:7

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

1 Samuel 30:16

And when he had brought him down, behold, {they were} spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

1 Samuel 25:10-11

And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who {is} David? and who {is} the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.

1 Samuel 25:36-38

And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart {was} merry within him, for he {was} very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

Isaiah 3:4-5

And I will give children {to be} their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

1 Samuel 25:25

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, {even} Nabal: for as his name {is}, so {is} he; Nabal {is} his name, and folly {is} with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. {regard: Heb. lay it to his heart} {Nabal: that is, Fool}

1 Samuel 25:3

Now the name of the man {was} Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and {she was} a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man {was} churlish and evil in his doings; and he {was} of the house of Caleb.