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Proverbs 30:24-33

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24 1Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise:
25 2the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
26 3the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
27 the locusts have no 4king, yet all of them march in 5rank;
28 the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.
29 6Three things are stately in their tread; 7four are stately in their stride:
30 the lion, which is mightiest among beasts and 8does not turn back before any;
31 the 9strutting rooster,[a] the he-goat, and a king whose army is with him.[b]
32 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, 10put your hand on your mouth.
33 For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.
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Proverbs 30:24-33 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

Cross References 10

  • 1. [See ver. 15 above]
  • 2. Proverbs 6:6-8
  • 3. Leviticus 11:5; Psalms 104:18
  • 4. [Proverbs 6:7]
  • 5. [Joel 2:7, 8, 25]
  • 6. ver. 15, 18, 21; [Proverbs 6:16]
  • 7. ver. 15, 18, 21; [Proverbs 6:16]
  • 8. [Job 39:22]
  • 9. [Job 40:16]
  • 10. Micah 7:16; See Job 21:5

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or the magpie, or the greyhound; Hebrew girt-of-loins
  • [b]. Or against whom there is no rising up
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