a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;
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.
Commenting on Proverbs 30:18-23
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...
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.