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Proverbs 30:10-20

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10 Don't slander a servant to his master; otherwise, the servant will curse you, and you will be guilty.
11 There are those who curse their father and don't bless their mother.
12 There are those who think they are clean, but haven't washed off their own excrement.
13 There are those— how arrogant are their eyes; how their eyebrows are raised!
14 There are those whose teeth are swords; their jaw is a butcher's knife, ready to devour the needy from the earth, and the poor from humanity.
15 The leech has two daughters: “Give, give!” There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, “Enough!”:
16 the grave and a barren womb, a land never filled with water, and fire that doesn't say, “Enough!”
17 An eye that mocks a father and rejects obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the river valley peck it out, and the eagle's young eat it.
18 Three things are too wonderful for me, four that I can't figure out:
19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on the rock, the way of a ship out on the open sea, and the way of a man with a young woman.
20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and she says, "I've done nothing wrong!"
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Proverbs 30:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 17

This chapter begins with a prophecy of Elijah, that there should be want of rain for some years to come, and he is directed to go first to the brook Cherith, where he should be fed by ravens, 1Ki 17:1-7, and afterwards he is sent to a widow at Zarephath, where he, she, and her son, were supported for a considerable time with a handful of meal, and a little oil in a cruse miraculously increased, 1Ki 17:8-16, whose son falling sick and dying, he restored to life, 1Ki 17:17-24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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  • [a] Heb Sheol
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