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
Delicate ease becometh not a fool; much more unseemly is it, a bond man to have the rule of princes.
Proverbs 28:3
One poor man oppressing another by violence, is like a continual rain that destroyeth the fruit.
Ecclesiastes 10:7
I see servants ride upon horses, and princes going upon their feet as it were servants.
Isaiah 3:4
And I shall give you children to be your princes, sayeth the LORD, and babes shall have the rule of you.
A fool
1 Samuel 25:3
The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail: and she was a woman of good wisdom and beautiful. But the man was churlish and of shrewd conditions and was a Calebite.
1 Samuel 30:16
And when he had brought him: see, they lay scattered abroad upon the earth, eating and drinking and triumphing over all the great prey that they had carried away out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
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Ecclesiastes 10:7
I see servants ride upon horses, and princes going upon their feet as it were servants.