Proverbs 30:22

New International Version

a servant who becomes king, a godless fool who gets plenty to eat,

Cross References

Proverbs 19:10

It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury— how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!

Proverbs 28:3

A ruler who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no crops.

Proverbs 30:21

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

Proverbs 30:23

a contemptible woman who gets married, and a servant who displaces her mistress.

Ecclesiastes 10:7

I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

1 Samuel 25:2

A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:25

Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent.

1 Samuel 25:3

His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings—he was a Calebite.

1 Samuel 30:16

He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah.