Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

for a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with food;

New American Standard Bible

Under a slave when he becomes king,
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 servant when he becomes king,
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 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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עבד 
`ebed 
Usage: 800

מלך 
Malak 
Usage: 350

and a fool
נבל 
Nabal 
Usage: 18

when he is filled
שׂבע שׂבע 
Saba` 
Usage: 98

References

Context Readings

Four Things That Are Intolerable

21 Under three things the earth quakes, and under four it is not able to bear up: 22 for a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with food; 23 for a hateful woman when she is married; and a servant girl that is heir to her mistress.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:10

Luxury is not becoming for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Ecclesiastes 10:7

I have seen servants on horses and princes walking as servants on the earth.

1 Samuel 25:3

And the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail. And she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful form. But the man was cruel and evil in his dealings. And he was 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? The servants who have broken away, each man from his master, have multiplied.

1 Samuel 25:25

Please do not let my lord regard this man of worthlessness, Nabal. For as his name is, so he is. Nabal is his name, and foolishness is with him. And I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

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 drunk. And she did not tell him anything, more or less, until the morning light.

1 Samuel 30:16

And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad on all the earth, 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 poor man who crushes the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

Isaiah 3:4-5

And I will give young boys to be their rulers, and caprices shall rule over them.

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