For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Ver. 22. For a servant when he reigneth.] As Jeroboam, Saul, Zimri, Herod, Heliogabalus, Phocas. See Trapp on " Pro 19:10 " Vespasian only, of all the emperors, is said to have been better for his advancement.
For a fool when he is filled with meat.] When his belly is filled with God's "hid treasure"; Psa 17:14 when he prospers and hath what he will. Prosperity is hard meat to fools; they cannot digest it. a They grow giddy, as weak heads do after a cup of generous wine, and lay about them like madmen; the folly of these rich fools is foolishness with a witness. Pro 14:24 See Trapp on " Pro 14:24 "
a Luxuriant animi rebus plerumque secundis. - Ovid.