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Prov. 30:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For a servant when hew reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

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2 Kings 8:12• ¹²And Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? And he said, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel: their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou kill with the sword, and wilt dash in pieces their children, and rip up their women with child. (2 Kings 8:12)

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a servant.

Prov. 19:10• ¹⁰Good living beseemeth not a fool; how much less for a servant to have rule over princes. (Prov. 19:10)

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Prov. 28:3• ³A poor man who oppresseth the helpless is a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. (Prov. 28:3)

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Eccl. 10:7• ⁷I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. (Eccl. 10:7)

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Isa. 3:4‑5• ⁴And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them.
⁵And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable. (Isa. 3:4‑5)

a fool.

1 Sam. 25:3,10‑11,25,36‑38• ³And 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 a Calebite.
¹⁰And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master.
¹¹And shall I take my bread, and my water, and my flesh which I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men whom I know not whence they are?
²⁵Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I thy handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
³⁶And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
³⁷And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
³⁸And it came to pass in about ten days that Jehovah smote Nabal, and he died. (1 Sam. 25:3,10‑11,25,36‑38)

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1 Sam. 30:16• ¹⁶And he brought him down, and behold, they were spread over the whole land, 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 Judah. (1 Sam. 30:16)

• Persons of low birth so exalted are often far harder on the populace than those born in high station. One has said that a servant ruling becomes “the most insolent, imperious, cruel, and tyrannical of masters.” (“Proverbs Thirty” by H.A. Ironside)

• Equally disquieting is a fool or a churl who is filled with meat; that is, has all that heart can wish. Rolling in plenty, he despises the needy, and considers that his possessions entitle him to respect, though he be bereft of every virtue, as was Nabal. (“Proverbs Thirty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churla when he is filled with meat;

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Or "fool," "vile person," Nabal. see ch. 1.7.