a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
Cross References
Proverbs 19:10Luxury is unseemly for a fool--how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
Proverbs 30:21Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
Proverbs 30:23an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.
Ecclesiastes 10:7I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.
Treasury of Scripture
For a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
a servant
Proverbs 19:10
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Proverbs 28:3
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
a fool
1 Samuel 25:3,10,11,25,36-38
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 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.