箴言 30:22

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

就是奴僕作王，愚頑人吃得飽，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
就 是 仆 人 作 王 ； 愚 顽 人 吃 饱 ；

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ "There are three things that are too hard for me, really four I don't understand: ¹⁹ the way an eagle flies in the sky, the way a snake slides over a rock, the way a ship sails on the sea, and the way a man and a woman fall in love. ²⁰ "This is the way of a woman who takes part in adultery: She acts as if she had eaten and washed her face; she says, ‘I haven't done anything wrong.' ²¹ "There are three things that make the earth tremble, really four it cannot stand: ²² a servant who becomes a king, a foolish person who has plenty to eat, ²³ a hated woman who gets married, and a maid who replaces her mistress.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a servant: Proverbs 19:10, Proverbs 28:3, Ecclesiastes 10:7, Isaiah 3:4, Isaiah 3:5

a fool: 1 Samuel 25:3, 1 Samuel 25:10, 1 Samuel 25:11, 1 Samuel 25:25, 1 Samuel 25:36-38, 1 Samuel 30:16

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 2:10 - the servant Proverbs 26:8 - so Proverbs 29:19 - servant Lamentations 5:8 - Servants

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild and tame animals with him in the boat. He made a wind blow over the earth, and the water went down.

Genesis 25:21
Isaac's wife could not have children, so Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord heard Isaac's prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant.

Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she was not having children for Jacob, she envied her sister Leah. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I'll die!"

Genesis 30:2
Jacob became angry with her and said, "Can I do what only God can do? He is the one who has kept you from having children."

Genesis 30:19
Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to a sixth son.

Genesis 30:20
She said, "God has given me a fine gift. Now surely Jacob will honor me, because I have given him six sons," so she named him Zebulun.

Psalms 105:42
He remembered his holy promise to his servant Abraham.

Psalms 113:9
He gives children to the woman who has none and makes her a happy mother. Praise the Lord !

Psalms 127:3
Children are a gift from the Lord ; babies are a reward.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For a servant, when he reigneth,.... Being unfit for it through his education, not having been trained up in and learned the arts of government and maxims of it; and through the disposition of his mind, which is mean, abject, and servile; and as he has been used himself when a servant, so he will use others c and through his circumstances, being poor, he will take oppressive methods to become rich; and being raised from a low estate, he is the more imperious, proud, and haughty d; all which and more make his reign intolerable; see Proverbs 19:10. This may be applied to antichrist, the "servus servorum", who in a haughty, tyrannical, and insolent manner, exalts himself above all that is called God: and reigns over the kings of the earth, at least has done so, and that in such a manner as was unbearable; deposing kings at pleasure, disposing of their kingdoms, and trampling upon their necks, and making their subjects his vassals; see 2 Thessalonians 2:4;

and a fool, when he is filled with meat; as Nabal at his feast, when he behaved so intolerably in his cups towards David and his messengers, that he determined on his destruction, had not Abigail interposed,

1 Samuel 25:10; and there are many such fools, who having their bellies full of food, and their heads full of liquor, are very overbearing in company, and give their tongues such a loose as is very disturbing: or this may intend such fools, or wicked men, who are full of wealth and riches, and being purse proud, are exceeding haughty and insolent; set their mouths against the heaven, and blaspheme God that is in it; and their tongues walk through the earth, and spare none, but lash all in an insufferable manner. These disquiet families, neighbourhoods, communities, and commonwealths; see Psalms 73:7.

c "Nec bellua tetrior ulla est, quam servi rabies in libera colla furentis", Claudian. in Eutrop. l. 1. v. 183, 184. d "Asperius nihil est humili, cum surgit in altum", Claudian. ib. v. 181.