Proverbs 30:21

21 At three things the earth trembles, at four it can't bear up:

Proverbs 30:21 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 30:21

For three [things] the earth is disquieted
The inhabitants of it are made very uneasy; and for four [which] it cannot bear;
they are a load and burden upon it, and are intolerable to those that dwell on it, and make them very uncomfortable.

Proverbs 30:21 In-Context

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!"

21 At three things the earth trembles, at four it can't bear up:

22 at a servant when he becomes king and fools when they are full of food;

23 at a detested woman when she gets married and a female servant when she replaces her mistress.