Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigns, || And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
In Context
21For three things has earth been troubled, || And for four—it is not able to bear:
23For a hated one when she rules, || And a maidservant when she succeeds her mistress.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:3And the name of the man [is] Nabal, and the name of his wife [is] Abigail, and the woman [is] of good understanding, and of beautiful form, and the man [is] hard and evil [in his] doings; and he [is] a Calebite.
1 Samuel 25:25Please do not let my lord set his heart to this man of worthlessness, on Nabal, for as his name [is] so [is] he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him; and I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent;
1 Samuel 30:16And he brings him down, and behold, they are spread out over the face of all the earth, eating, and drinking, and celebrating, with all the great spoil which they have taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
Proverbs 28:3A man—poor and oppressing the weak, || [Is] a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.
Isaiah 3:4And I have made youths their heads, || And sucklings 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 →