Catholic Public Domain Version
"by a slave when he reigns, by the foolish when he has been filled with food, "
— Proverbs 30:22, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;”
“For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;”
“under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who becomes stuffed with food,”
“By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:”
the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man in adolescence.
Such is the way also of an adulterous woman, who eats, and wiping her mouth, says: “I have done no evil.”
By three things, the earth is moved, and a fourth it is not able to sustain:
by a slave when he reigns, by the foolish when he has been filled with food,
by a hateful woman when she has been taken in matrimony, and by a handmaid when she has been heir to her mistress.
Four things are least upon the earth, and they are wiser than the wise:
the ants, an infirm people who provide food for themselves at the harvest,