Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Under a servant, when he reigneth, and a base man, when he is surfeited 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,
American Standard 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;
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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Malak
References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 30:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Four Things That Are Intolerable
21 Under three things, a land is stirred, yea, under four, she cannot bear up: 22 Under a servant, when he reigneth, and a base man, when he is surfeited with food; 23 Under a hateful woman, when she is married, and a handmaid when she driveth out her mistress.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 19:10
Unseemly for dullard, is delicate living, how much more for, a servant, to bear rule over princes.
Ecclesiastes 10:7
I had seen, servants, upon horses, - and, rulers, walking like servants, on the ground.
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 beautiful figure, - but, the man, was unfeeling and of evil practices, and he was a Calebite.
1 Samuel 25:10-11
Then Nabal answered the servants of David, and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Nowadays, many are the servants that have broken away, every one from the presence of his lord:
1 Samuel 25:25
Let it not be, I pray thee, that my lord regard this abandoned man - Nabal; For, as his name is, so, is he. Nabal, is his name, and, baseness, 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, when Abigail came unto Nabal, lo! he, had a banquet in his house, like the banquet of a king, and, the heart of Nabal, was glad accordingly, he having drunk deeply, - so she told him nothing - less or more, until the light of the morning.
1 Samuel 30:16
So he brought him down, and lo! they were left to themselves over the face of all the land, - eating, and drinking, and dancing around, for all the great spoil which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
Proverbs 28:3
A poor man, who oppresseth the helpless, is like a rain beating down, leaving no food.
Isaiah 3:4-5
And I will appoint boys to be their princes, - And, petulant children, shall rule over them,