Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 30:22 — For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
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a servant   Pro 19:10; Pro 28:3; Ecc 10:7; Isa 3:4,5
a fool   1Sa 25:3,10,11,25,36-38; 1Sa 30:16
Correlating Passages
a servant
Pro 19:10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Pro 28:3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Ecc 10:7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Isa 3:4 And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
Isa 3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
a fool
1Sa 25:3 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.
1Sa 25:10 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.
1Sa 25:11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] unto men, whom I know not whence they [be]?
1Sa 25:25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, [even] Nabal: for as his name [is], so [is] he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
1Sa 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
1Sa 25:37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became [as] a stone.
1Sa 25:38 And it came to pass about ten days [after], that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
1Sa 30:16 And when he had brought him down, behold, [they were] spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

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Scott, Thomas. "Proverbs 30:22," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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