Proverbs 30:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²² For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with meat;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² For a servant when he reigneth; And a fool when he is filled with meat;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Under a servant when he reigns, a [empty-headed] fool when he is filled with food,

American Standard Version (1901)

²² For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;

Common English Bible

²² at a servant when he becomes king and fools when they are full of food;

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² by a slave when he reigns, by the foolish when he has been filled with food,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when he is filled with meat:

Proverbs 30:22 Cross References

Proverbs 19:10

Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Proverbs 28:3

A needy man that oppresseth the poor Is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Proverbs 30:21

For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, which it cannot bear:

Proverbs 30:23

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

Ecclesiastes 10:7

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

1 Samuel 25:2

And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

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: hut I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

1 Samuel 25:3

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and the woman was 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.

1 Samuel 30:16

And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and feasting, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.