KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 30:22–23
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Proverbs 30:22
22For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
22*For a seruant when he reigneth, and a foole when hee is filled with meate:
- Chap. 19.10.
Proverbs 30:23
23For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
23For an odious woman when shee is married, and an handmayd that is heire to her mistresse.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 30:22
One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A person lacking wisdom or moral understanding; as a verb, to act foolishly or deceive.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Made full; supplied with abundance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 30:23
Hateful, offensive, or deserving abhorrence.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Joined to a husband or wife in marriage.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A person entitled to inherit or succeed to the possession, estate, or place named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A female master or woman having authority over a household, servants, or dependants; also a woman preeminent in the thing named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 22
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Open the full verse study10Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
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Open the full verse study7I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
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Open the full verse study10¶ 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.
11Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
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Open the full verse study25Let 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.
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Open the full verse study3Now 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.
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Open the full verse study36¶ 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.
37But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
38And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.
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Open the full verse study16¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
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Open the full verse study3A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
From verse 23
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Open the full verse study19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
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Open the full verse study15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
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Open the full verse study9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
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Open the full verse study21He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
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Open the full verse study13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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