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- Proverbs
- Chapter 30
- Verse 22
Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
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Commentary
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
For a servant, when he reigneth,.... Being unfit for it through his education, not having been trained up in and learned the arts of government and maxims of it; and through the disposition of his…
Here is, I. An account of four things that are unsearchable, too wonderful to be fully known. And here,
1. The first three are natural things, and are only designed as comparisons for the illustration…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
reigneth Better, is, or becomes king.
filledwith meat i.e. is rich and prosperous. See Pro 30:8-9 above.
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