Proverbs 30:21

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"For three things the earth doth tremble,

And for four which it cannot bear.

For a servant when he is king;

And a fool when he is filled with food;

For an odious woman when she is married;

And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress."

The cases cited here are of people in relatively inferior positions who find themselves suddenly promoted; and the intimation of the passage is that, "They then become excessively pretentious, arrogant and disagreeable."[20] Some have discovered an element of humor in the situations mentioned here.