Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
A fool
General references
Bible References
A servant
Proverbs 19:10
Delight is not becoming to the foolish one; much less for a servant to rule over chiefs.
Proverbs 28:3
A poor man oppressing the poor, a sweeping rain and no bread.
Ecclesiastes 10:7
I saw servants upon horses, and chiefs going as servants upon the earth.
Isaiah 3:4
And I gave boys their chiefs, and the petulant shall rule over them.
A fool
1 Samuel 25:3
And the name of the man Nabal; and his wife's name Abigail: and the woman good of understanding, and beautiful of form: and the man hard and evil of works; and he as his dog.
1 Samuel 30:16
And he will bring him down, and behold them spread out upon the face of all the earth, eating and drinking and keeping a festival, for all the great spoil which they took from the land of the rovers, and from the land of Judah.
General references
Ecclesiastes 10:7
I saw servants upon horses, and chiefs going as servants upon the earth.