Proverbs 30:22

Modern English Version

a servant when he reigns, a fool when he is filled with food,

Cross References

Proverbs 19:10

Luxury is not fitting for a fool, much less for a servant to rule over princes.

Ecclesiastes 10:7

I have observed slaves on horses, and officials walking on the ground like slaves.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no crops.

1 Samuel 30:16

When he brought him down, behold, they were spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

1 Samuel 25:25

Please do not let my lord set his heart against this worthless man, against Nabal. For as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and folly is with him. But I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

1 Samuel 25:3

The man’s name was Nabal and the name of his wife Abigail. She was a woman of good understanding and beautiful, but the man was harsh and evil in his actions and he was a Calebite.

Proverbs 30:21

Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up:

Proverbs 30:23

a hateful woman when she is married, and a servant girl who displaces her mistress.

1 Samuel 25:2

Now there was a man in Maon whose work was in Carmel. He was a rich man with three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.