Proverbs 30:29

There are four animals that strut around and look very impressive while they walk [DOU]:

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

In Context

28Lizards/Geckos are very small and you can hold them in your hand, but they are cleverly able to get inside kings’ palaces.

30Lions, which are stronger than all other animals and are not afraid of any of them;

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Cross References

Proverbs 30:15Leeches are always wanting more blood to suck; similarly, greedy people are always saying “Give me some!” or “Give me more!” [MET] There are four things that are never ◄satisfied/content with what they have►; they always want more [LIT]:

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 →

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