Proverbs 30:22 (BSB)

a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 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 of the last. We cannot trace, (1.) An eagle in the air.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 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 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...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 30:22: For 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.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 30:21-23: 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). There are, up to this point, two numerical proverbs which begin with שׁתּים, Pro 30:7, and שׁתּי, Pro 30:15; after the cipher 2 there then, Pro 30:18, followed the cipher 3, which is now here continued: 21...