Proverbs 30:21

21 Three things make the earth quake, four things it can't bear -

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 a rock, the way of a ship on the open sea, and the way of a man with a girl.

20 This is how an unfaithful wife behaves: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, "I did nothing wrong."

21 Three things make the earth quake, four things it can't bear -

22 a slave who becomes king, a boor gorged with food,

23 a hated [wife] when her husband takes her [back], and a slave-girl who inherits from her mistress.