Proverbs 30:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

a slave when he becomes king and a fool when glutted with food,

Cross References

Proverbs 19:10

It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor person who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.

Proverbs 30:21

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

Proverbs 30:23

a contemptible woman when she gets a husband and a maid when she supplants her mistress.

Ecclesiastes 10:7

I have seen slaves on horseback and princes walking on the ground like slaves.

1 Samuel 25:2

There was a man in Maon whose property was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:25

My lord, do not take seriously this ill-natured fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him, but I, your servant, did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

1 Samuel 25:3

Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail. The woman was clever and beautiful, but the man was surly and mean; he was a Calebite.

1 Samuel 30:16

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