Proverbs 30:22
a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
BSB
ASV
For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;
KJV
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
"When a servant reigneth: "Israel was a slave in Egypt, and in the land of promise became a ruler. "And a fool when he is filled with meat: "i.e., getting the land in possession readily, and eating its fruit, and being filled, it (the people) kicked.
For a servant, when he reigneth,.... Being unfit for it through his education, not having been trained up in and learned the arts of government and maxims of it; and through the disposition of his mind, which is mean, abject, and servile; and as he has been used himself when a servant, so he will use others (c) and through his circumstances, being poor, he will take oppressive methods to become rich; and being raised from a low estate, he is the more imperious, proud, and haughty (d); all which and more make his reign intolerable; see Pro 19:
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The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Ecclesiastes 10:7I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.
leads to
Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
have them bring a royal robe that the king himself has worn and a horse on which the king himself has ridden—one with a royal crest placed on its head.
Through
Proverbs 19:10Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
leads to
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.
Through
1 Samuel 30:16So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines…
leads to
And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.
People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
