Proverbs 30:22

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What does Proverbs 30:22 mean?

Proverbs 30:22 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 30:22

• Proverbs 19:10

  Delight 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 as servants upon the earth.

• 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. But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.

• 1 Samuel 25:3

  Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman 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 be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master. Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

• Isaiah 3:4-5

  And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

• 1 Samuel 25:25

  Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even 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, whom thou didst send.

• 1 Samuel 30:16

  And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon 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 that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

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Context

• Proverbs 30:21

  For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

• Proverbs 30:22

  For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

• Proverbs 30:23

  For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

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