Proverbs 30:20-30

20 This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, "I have done no wrong."

21 Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up:

22 a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when glutted with food;

23 an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.

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

25 the ants are a people without strength, yet they provide their food in the summer;

26 the badgers are a people without power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

27 the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank;

28 the lizard can be grasped in the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces.

29 Three things are stately in their stride; four are stately in their gait:

30 the lion, which is mightiest among wild animals and does not turn back before any;

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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or [spider]