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Proverbs 30:22

Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

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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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Proverbs 30:18-23

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.