Proverbs 30:22

A Conservative Version

For a servant when he is king, and a fool when he is filled with food,

Cross References

Proverbs 19:10

Luxurious living is not fitting for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over rulers.

Ecclesiastes 10:7

I have seen servants upon horses, and rulers walking like servants upon the earth.

Proverbs 28:3

A needy man who oppresses the poor is a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

1 Samuel 30:16

And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, 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

1 Samuel 25:25

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord whom thou sent.

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.

Proverbs 30:21

For three things the earth trembles, and for four, [which] it cannot bear:

Proverbs 30:23

for a hateful woman when she is married, and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

1 Samuel 25:2

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