Proverbs 30:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

Proverbs 30:22 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:10
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
1 Samuel 25:10-11
And 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. …
1 Samuel 25:3
Now 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.
Proverbs 28:3
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-23)

Here is, I. An account of four things that are unsearchable, too wonderful to be fully known. And here, 1. The first three are natural things, and are only designed as comparisons for the illustration of the last. We cannot trace, (1.) An eagle in the air. Which way she has flown cannot be discovered either by the footstep or by the scent, as the way of a beast may upon ground; nor can we account…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

21-23. Pride and cruelty, the undue exaltation of those unfit to hold power, produce those vices which disquiet society (compare Pr 19:10; 28:3).