the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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THE MESSAGE
Proverbs 30:22
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a servant when he becomes king,a fool when he is stuffed with food,
For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;
Under a slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,
a servant who becomes a king, a foolish person who has plenty to eat,
Under a servant when he reigns, Under a [spiritually blind] fool when he is filled with food,
For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;
For a seruant when he reigneth, & a foole when he is filled with meate,
Under a slave when he becomes king,And a wicked fool when he is satisfied with food,
a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
A slave who becomes king, a fool who eats too much,
a slave who becomes king, a boor gorged with food,
Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;
a slave who becomes a king, fools who have everything they need,
Under a servant when he reigns: and under a fool when he is filled with bread;
a slave who becomes a king, a fool who has all he wants to eat,
under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied with food;
Under a servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with food,
Thorow a seruaut yt beareth rule, thorow a foole yt hath greate riches,
For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;
A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;
For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl when he is filled with food;
For a seruant when he reigneth, and a foole when hee is filled with meate:
A seruaunt that beareth rule, a foole that is full fedde,
An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.
For a servant when he is king; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
bi a seruaunt, whanne he regneth; bi a fool, whanne he is fillid with mete;
For a slave when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with food.
under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food,
For a servant when he reigns, A fool when he is filled with food,
a slave who becomes a king, an overbearing fool who prospers,
Under a servant when he becomes king, under a fool when he is filled with food,
a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when glutted with food;
Under a servant, when he reigneth, and a base man, when he is surfeited with food;
By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:
a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;
For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,
Under a slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,
Contextual Overview
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
Then God turned his attention to Noah and all the wild animals and farm animals with him on the ship. God caused the wind to blow and the floodwaters began to go down. The underground springs were shut off, the windows of Heaven closed and the rain quit. Inch by inch the water lowered. After 150 days the worst was over.
Isaac prayed hard to God for his wife because she was barren. God answered his prayer and Rebekah became pregnant. But the children tumbled and kicked inside her so much that she said, "If this is the way it's going to be, why go on living?" She went to God to find out what was going on. God told her, Two nations are in your womb, two peoples butting heads while still in your body. One people will overpower the other, and the older will serve the younger.
When Rachel realized that she wasn't having any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She told Jacob, "Give me sons or I'll die!"
Jacob got angry with Rachel and said, "Am I God? Am I the one who refused you babies?"
Don't you see that children are God 's best gift? the fruit of the womb his generous legacy? Like a warrior's fistful of arrows are the children of a vigorous youth. Oh, how blessed are you parents, with your quivers full of children! Your enemies don't stand a chance against you; you'll sweep them right off your doorstep.
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.
