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Text -- Proverbs 30:22 (NET)

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30:22 under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food,
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Wesley: Pro 30:22 - -- For such an one is commonly ignorant, and therefore commits many errors; he is poor, and therefore insatiable, he is proud and imperious, and usually ...

For such an one is commonly ignorant, and therefore commits many errors; he is poor, and therefore insatiable, he is proud and imperious, and usually injurious and cruel.

Wesley: Pro 30:22 - -- A conceited fool.

A conceited fool.

Wesley: Pro 30:22 - -- When he abounds in wealth.

When he abounds in wealth.

JFB: Pro 30:21-23 - -- Pride and cruelty, the undue exaltation of those unfit to hold power, produce those vices which disquiet society (compare Pro 19:10; Pro 28:3).

Pride and cruelty, the undue exaltation of those unfit to hold power, produce those vices which disquiet society (compare Pro 19:10; Pro 28:3).

TSK: Pro 30:22 - -- a servant : Pro 19:10, Pro 28:3; Ecc 10:7; Isa 3:4, Isa 3:5 a fool : 1Sa 25:3, 1Sa 25:10, 1Sa 25:11, 1Sa 25:25, 1Sa 25:36-38, 1Sa 30:16

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Poole: Pro 30:22 - -- When he reigneth when he is advanced to great power and dignity; for such a one is ignorant and unfit for his place, and therefore commits many error...

When he reigneth when he is advanced to great power and dignity; for such a one is ignorant and unfit for his place, and therefore commits many errors; he is poor, and therefore an insatiable oppressor, according to Pro 28:3 ; he is proud and imperious, and being maligned and hated by others, he is provoked to hate them, and to be injurious and cruel to them.

A fool a conceited and wilful fool, or all obstinately wicked man,

when he is filled with meat either,

1. When he is glutted with meat or drink, which dulls men’ s reason, and heats their blood, and stirs them up to many insolencies. Or rather,

2. When he abounds in wealth, which in that case is like a sword in a madman’ s hand, being an instrument and occasion of innumerable wickednesses and mischiefs, as appears from common experience.

Gill: Pro 30:22 - -- 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 ma...

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 mind, which is mean, abject, and servile; and as he has been used himself when a servant, so he will use others c and through his circumstances, being poor, he will take oppressive methods to become rich; and being raised from a low estate, he is the more imperious, proud, and haughty d; all which and more make his reign intolerable; see Pro 19:10. This may be applied to antichrist, the "servus servorum", who in a haughty, tyrannical, and insolent manner, exalts himself above all that is called God: and reigns over the kings of the earth, at least has done so, and that in such a manner as was unbearable; deposing kings at pleasure, disposing of their kingdoms, and trampling upon their necks, and making their subjects his vassals; see 2Th 2:4;

and a fool, when he is filled with meat; as Nabal at his feast, when he behaved so intolerably in his cups towards David and his messengers, that he determined on his destruction, had not Abigail interposed, 1Sa 25:10; and there are many such fools, who having their bellies full of food, and their heads full of liquor, are very overbearing in company, and give their tongues such a loose as is very disturbing: or this may intend such fools, or wicked men, who are full of wealth and riches, and being purse proud, are exceeding haughty and insolent; set their mouths against the heaven, and blaspheme God that is in it; and their tongues walk through the earth, and spare none, but lash all in an insufferable manner. These disquiet families, neighbourhoods, communities, and commonwealths; see Psa 73:7.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 30:22 The expression stuffed with food probably represents prosperity in general. So the line portrays someone who suddenly comes into wealth, but continues...

Geneva Bible: Pro 30:22 For ( l ) a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with food; ( l ) These commonly abuse the state to which they are called.

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Pro 30:1-33 - --1 Agur's confession of his faith.7 The two points of his prayer.10 The meanest are not to be wronged.11 Four wicked generations.15 Four things insatia...

MHCC: Pro 30:21-23 - --Four sorts of persons are very troublesome. Men of low origin and base spirit, who, getting authority, become tyrants. Foolish and violent men indulgi...

Matthew Henry: Pro 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...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 30:21-23 - -- It is now not at all necessary to rack one's brains over the grounds or the reasons of the arrangement of the following proverb ( vid ., Hitzig). Th...

Constable: Pro 30:1--31:31 - --V. TWO DISCOURSES BY OTHER WISE MEN chs. 30--31 Chapters 30 and 31 form a distinct section in Proverbs because n...

Constable: Pro 30:1-33 - --A. The Wisdom of Agur ch. 30 The most distinctive features of Agur's proverbs are his numerical style of...

Constable: Pro 30:10-33 - --3. Wisdom about life 30:10-33 Though his view of and awareness of God are very much behind what Agur said in the rest of this chapter, his counsel dea...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 30 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Pro 30:1, Agur’s confession of his faith; Pro 30:7, The two points of his prayer; Pro 30:10, The meanest are not to be wronged; Pro 30:...

Poole: Proverbs 30 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 30 Agur’ s prophecy, Pro 30:1 ; wherein he acknowledgeth his own ignorance, Pro 30:2,3 . The purity of God’ s word, with the happ...

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs 30 (Chapter Introduction) This and the following chapter are an appendix to Solomon's proverbs; but they are both expressly called prophecies in the first verses of both, by...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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