Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

For a servant when he is king; 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 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,

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 "For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can't bear up: 22 For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food; 23 for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:10

Delicate living is not appropriate 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 like servants on 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 face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

1 Samuel 25:10-11

Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

1 Samuel 25:25

Please do not let my lord 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, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

1 Samuel 25:36-38

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

1 Samuel 30:16

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, 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 who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

Isaiah 3:4-5

And I will make youths to be their leaders, and capricious children shall rule over them.

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