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Proverbs 30:22 Cross-References
Explore 9 cross-references for Proverbs 30:22 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Proverbs chapter 30 verse 22 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;”
Proverbs 30:22 (KJV)
Commentary on Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat. The first two intolerable inversions: eved (עֶבֶד, servant/slave) when he yimlokh (יִמְלֹךְ, reigns), and naval (נָבָל, fool) when yisba lachem (יִשְׂבַּע־לָחֶם, filled with bread). The servant lacks governing experience, wisdom, or perspective; sudden authority without formation produces tyranny. History confirms: those who suffered oppression often become oppressors when power shifts (revolutionaries-turned-dictators).The naval is not intellectually deficient but morally deficient—the biblical fool rejects God's wisdom (...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Proverbs 30:22
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“much less for a servant to have rule over princes.”
“and princes walking like servants on the earth.”
“behold”
“even Nabal; for as his name is”
“and children shall rule over them.”
“and of a beautiful face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.”
“he held a feast in his house”
“and said”
“A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.”