Proverbs 30:27
There is no king to the locust, || And it goes out—each one shouting,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
In Context
26hyraxes [are] a people not strong, || And they place their house in a rock,
28A spider with two hands takes hold, || And is in the palaces of a king.
Cross References
Exodus 10:13And Moses stretches out his rod against the land of Egypt, and YHWH has led an east wind over the land all that day, and all the night; the morning has been, and the east wind has lifted up the locust.
Exodus 10:15and it covers the eye of all the land, and the land is darkened; and it eats every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail has left, and there has not been left any green thing in the trees, or in the herb of the field, in all the land of Egypt.
Joel 1:4What is left of the palmer-worm, the locust has eaten, || And what is left of the locust, || The cankerworm has eaten, || And what is left of the cankerworm, || The caterpillar has eaten.
Joel 2:7They run as mighty ones, || As men of war they go up a wall, || And they each go in his own ways, || And they do not change their paths.
Joel 2:25“And I have repaid to you the years that the locust consumed, || The cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, || My great force that I sent against 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 →