"For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;"
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;
Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with food.
For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;
For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,