Proverbs 30:22

Bishop's Bible

A seruaunt that beareth rule, a foole that is full fedde,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
a servant when he becomes king,a fool when he is stuffed with food,

Hebrew Names Version
For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;

King James Version
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

English Standard Version
a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;

New American Standard Bible
Under a slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,

New Century Version
a servant who becomes a king, a foolish person who has plenty to eat,

Amplified Bible
Under a servant when he reigns, Under a [spiritually blind] fool when he is filled with food,

World English Bible
For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;

Geneva Bible (1587)
For a seruant when he reigneth, & a foole when he is filled with meate,

Legacy Standard Bible
Under a slave when he becomes king,And a wicked fool when he is satisfied with food,

Berean Standard Bible
a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

Contemporary English Version
A slave who becomes king, a fool who eats too much,

Complete Jewish Bible
a slave who becomes king, a boor gorged with food,

Darby Translation
Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;

Easy-to-Read Version
a slave who becomes a king, fools who have everything they need,

George Lamsa Translation
Under a servant when he reigns: and under a fool when he is filled with bread;

Good News Translation
a slave who becomes a king, a fool who has all he wants to eat,

Lexham English Bible
under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied with food;

Literal Translation
Under a servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with food,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thorow a seruaut yt beareth rule, thorow a foole yt hath greate riches,

American Standard Version
For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;

Bible in Basic English
A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl when he is filled with food;

King James Version (1611)
For a seruant when he reigneth, and a foole when hee is filled with meate:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.

English Revised Version
For a servant when he is king; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
bi a seruaunt, whanne he regneth; bi a fool, whanne he is fillid with mete;

Update Bible Version
For a slave when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;

Webster's Bible Translation
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with food.

New English Translation
under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food,

New King James Version
For a servant when he reigns, A fool when he is filled with food,

New Living Translation
a slave who becomes a king, an overbearing fool who prospers,

New Life Bible
Under a servant when he becomes king, under a fool when he is filled with food,

New Revised Standard
a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when glutted with food;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Under a servant, when he reigneth, and a base man, when he is surfeited with food;

Douay-Rheims Bible
By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:

Revised Standard Version
a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;

Young's Literal Translation
For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Under a slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ There be three thynges whiche are wonderfull to me, yea foure whiche passe my vnderstandyng: ¹⁹ The way of an Egle in the ayre, the way of a serpent vpon a stone, the way of a ship in the middest of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman: ²⁰ Such is the way also of a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke, which wypeth her mouth [lyke as] when she hath eaten, and sayth, as for me I haue done no wickednesse. ²¹ For three thynges the earth is disquieted, and the fourth may it not abyde. ²² A seruaunt that beareth rule, a foole that is full fedde, ²³ A spiteful woman when she is maried, and an handmayde that is heire to her maistresse.

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
And God remebred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with hym in the arke: and God made a wynde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceassed.

Genesis 25:21
And Isahac made intercession vnto the Lorde for his wyfe, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of hym, and Rebecca his wyfe conceaued.

Genesis 30:1
Rachel when she sawe that she bare Iacob no children, she enuied her sister, and sayde vnto Iacob: Geue me children, or els I am but dead.

Genesis 30:2
And Iacobs anger was kyndled agaynst Rachel, and sayde: Am I in Gods steade, whiche kepeth from thee the fruite of thy wombe?

Genesis 30:19
And Lea conceaued yet agayne, and bare Iacob the sixt sonne.

Genesis 30:20
And Lea sayde: God hath endued me with a good dowrie, nowe wyll my husbande dwell with me, because I haue borne hym sixe sonnes: and called his name Zabulon.

Psalms 105:42
For he remembred his holy worde: [spoken] vnto Abraham his seruaunt.

Psalms 113:9
He maketh the barren woman to kepe house: and to be a ioyful mother of children. Prayse ye the Lorde.

Psalms 127:3
Beholde, chyldren be the inheritage of God: and the fruite of the wombe is a rewarde.

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.