Proverbs 30:27
The grashoppers haue not a guide, yet go they foorth together by heapes:
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
In Context
26The conies are but a feeble folke, yet make their boroughes among the rockes:
28The spyder laboureth with her handes, and is in kynges palaces.
Cross References
Joel 1:4That which the caterpiller hath left the grashopper hath eaten, and what the grashopper left hath the canker worme eaten, and what the canker worme left the locust hath deuoured.
Joel 2:7They shall runne like strong men, and climbe the walles like men of warre: & euery one shall march on in his way, and they shal not linger in their pathes.
Joel 2:25And I wyll restore to you the yeres which the grashopper, the canker worme, the locust, and the caterpiller haue deuoured, my great armie which I sent amongst you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:25-29
Four Things Little and Wise. 24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; 27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; 28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces. I. Agur, having specified four things that seem great and yet are really contemptible, here specifies four… Read the whole commentary →