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Pro 30:22

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

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ParallelPro 19:10

Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

ParallelEcc 10:7

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

Parallel1Sa 25:36

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.

Parallel1Sa 25:10

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.

Parallel1Sa 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. {regard: Heb. lay it to his heart} {Nabal: that is, Fool}

Parallel1Sa 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.

ParallelIsa 3:4

And I will give children {to be} their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

Parallel1Sa 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.

ParallelPro 28:3

A poor man that oppresseth the poor {is like} a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. {which...: Heb. without food}

ParallelEcc 10:7

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

ParallelLam 5:8

Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none that doth deliver {us} out of their hand.

ParallelPro 26:8

As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so {is} he that giveth honour to a fool. {bindeth...: or, putteth a precious stone in an heap of stones}

ParallelNeh 2:10

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard {of it}, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

ParallelPro 29:19

A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.