Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;
New American Standard Bible
And a fool when he is satisfied with food,
King James Version
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Holman Bible
a fool when he is stuffed with food,
International Standard Version
Under a slave when he becomes a king, a fool when he is overfed,
A Conservative Version
For a servant when he is king, and a fool when he is filled with food,
Amplified
Under a servant when he reigns,
Under a [spiritually blind] fool when he is filled with food,
Bible in Basic English
A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;
Darby Translation
Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;
Julia Smith Translation
For a servant when he shall reign; and the foolish one when he shall be filled with bread;
King James 2000
For a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with food;
Lexham Expanded Bible
under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied [with] food;
Modern King James verseion
for a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with food;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
through a servant that beareth rule, through a fool that hath great riches,
NET Bible
under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food,
New Heart English Bible
For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;
The Emphasized Bible
Under a servant, when he reigneth, and a base man, when he is surfeited with food;
Webster
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with food.
World English Bible
For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;
Youngs Literal Translation
For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,
Themes
Exaltation » Of men (promotion) » Of unworthy men
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Do not bear to be exalted
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 30:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Four Things That Are Intolerable
21 For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, which it cannot bear: 22 For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food; 23 For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 19:10
Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking like servants upon the earth.
1 Samuel 25:3
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 countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
1 Samuel 25:10-11
And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master.
1 Samuel 25:25
Let not my lord, I pray thee, 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 thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
1 Samuel 25:36-38
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.
1 Samuel 30:16
And 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.
Proverbs 28:3
A needy man that oppresseth the poor Is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Isaiah 3:4-5
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.