Verse 22

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

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:10 : 10 Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
  • Eccl 10:7 : 7 I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.
  • Isa 3:4-5 : 4 I will give boys to be their princes, And children shall rule over them. 5 The people will be oppressed, Everyone by another, And everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, And the base against the honorable.
  • Prov 28:3 : 3 A needy man who oppresses the poor Is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
  • 1 Sam 25:3 : 3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
  • 1 Sam 25:10-11 : 10 Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master. 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know where they come from?
  • 1 Sam 25:25 : 25 Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you did send.
  • 1 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 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: therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. 37 It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 38 It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
  • 1 Sam 30:16 : 16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, 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.