Proverbs 30:22
By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when he is filled with meat:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
In Context
21By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear:
23By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:3Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman, but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb.
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lord the king, I pray, regard this naughty man Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest.
1 Samuel 30:16And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a festival day, for all the prey, and the spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.
Proverbs 28:3A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a violent shower, which bringeth a famine.
Isaiah 3:4And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:19-24
Four Things Little and Wise. 18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. 20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness. 21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: 22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled… Read the whole commentary →