22For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
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. …
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.
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
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…
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