Proverbs 30:22
For a seruant when he reigneth, and a foole when he is filled with meate,
Geneva Bible 1599
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 the earth is moued: yea, for foure it cannot susteine it selfe:
23For the hatefull woman, when she is married, and for a handmaid that is heire to her mistres.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:3The name also of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail, and she was a woman of singular wisdome, and beautifull, but the man was churlish, and euil conditioned, and was of the familie of Caleb.
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lorde, I pray thee, regard this wicked man Nabal: for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and follie is with him: but I thine handmayde sawe not the yong men of my lord whom thou sentest.
1 Samuel 30:16And when he had brought him thither, beholde, they lay scattered abroade vpon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dauncing, because of all the great pray that they had taken out of the lande of the Philistims, and out of the land of Iudah.
Proverbs 28:3A poore man, if he oppresse the poore, is like a raging raine, that leaueth no foode.
Isaiah 3:4And I will appoint children to bee their princes, and babes shall rule ouer 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 →