THEOSISProverbs 30:22Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:
תַּֽחַת־עֶ֭בֶד כִּ֣י יִמְל֑וֹךְ וְ֝נָבָ֗ל כִּ֣י יִֽשְׂבַּֽע־לָֽחֶם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 19:10Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes.
- Eccl 10:7I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.
- Isa 3:4And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.
- Isa 3:5And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make a tumult against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
- 1 Sam 25:10But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? and what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now days who flee from their masters.
- 1 Sam 25:11Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are?
- 1 Sam 30:16And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread abroad upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.
- 1 Sam 25:36And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning.