Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
through a servant that beareth rule, through a fool that hath great riches,
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;
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 30:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Four Things That Are Intolerable
21 Through three things the earth is disquieted, and the fourth may it not bear: 22 through a servant that beareth rule, through a fool that hath great riches, 23 through an idle housewife, and through a handmaiden that is heir to her mistress.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 19:10
Delicate ease becometh not a fool; much more unseemly is it, a bond man to have the rule of princes.
Ecclesiastes 10:7
I see servants ride upon horses, and princes going upon their feet as it were servants.
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 25:10-11
And Nabal answered David's servants and said, "What is David? And what is the son of Jesse? There is plenty of servants nowadays, that break away every man from his master.
1 Samuel 25:25
Let not my lord regard this unthrifty man Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and folly is with him. But I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord which thou sendest.
1 Samuel 25:36-38
And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day.
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.
Proverbs 28:3
One poor man oppressing another by violence, is like a continual rain that destroyeth the fruit.
Isaiah 3:4-5
And I shall give you children to be your princes, sayeth the LORD, and babes shall have the rule of you.