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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 weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. (2 Kings 8:12)

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a servant.

Prov. 19:10• ¹⁰Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. (Prov. 19:10)

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Prov. 28:3• ³A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like 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 give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
⁵And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable. (Isa. 3:4‑5)

a fool.

1 Sam. 25:3,10‑11,25,36‑38• ³Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
¹⁰And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
¹¹Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
²⁵Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not 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 very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
³⁷But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
³⁸And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died. (1 Sam. 25:3,10‑11,25,36‑38)

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1 Sam. 30:16• ¹⁶And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, 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.