Proverbs 30:20-30

20 This is the way of an ¹adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, "I have done no wrong."

21 Under three things the earth quakes, And under four, it cannot * bear up:

22 Under a ²slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,

23 Under an unloved woman when she gets a husband, And a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.

24 Four things are small on the earth, But they are exceedingly wise:

25 The ³ants are not a strong people, But they prepare their food in the summer;

26 The ⁴shephanim are not mighty people, Yet they make their houses in the rocks;

27 The locusts have no king, Yet all of them go out in ⁵ranks;

28 The lizard you may grasp with the hands, Yet it is in kings' palaces.

29 There are three things which are stately in their march, Even four which are stately when they walk:

30 The lion which is ⁶mighty among beasts And does not ⁷retreat before * any,

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Proverbs 30:20-30 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 7

1. Proverbs 5:6
2. Proverbs 19:10; Ecclesiastes 10:7
3. Proverbs 6:6
4. Leviticus 11:5; Psalms 104:18
5. Joel 2:7
6. Judges 14:18; 2 Samuel 1:23
7. Micah 5:8

Footnotes 2

[a]. Small, shy, furry animals "(Hyrax syriacus)" found in the peninsula of the Sinai, northern Israel, and the region round the Dead Sea; KJV "coney," orig NASB "badgers"
[b]. Lit "turn back"