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
For a fool living in luxury is not fitting, [any] more [than it is] for a slave to rule over princes.
Proverbs 28:3
A man [who is] poor and oppresses the impoverished [is] a beating rain {that leaves} no food.
Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have even seen slaves [riding] on horses and princes walking like slaves on the earth!
Isaiah 3:4
And I will make boys their princes, and children shall rule over them.
A fool
1 Samuel 25:3
The name of the man [was] Nabal, and the name of his wife [was] Abigail. Now the woman [was] wise and beautiful, but the man [was] stubborn and {mean}, and he [was] as his heart.
1 Samuel 30:16
So he took him down, and {there they were}, spread out over the surface of all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all of the abundant plunder which they had taken from the land of [the] Philistines and from the land of Judah.
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Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have even seen slaves [riding] on horses and princes walking like slaves on the earth!