Proverbs 30:15-29
Holman Christian Standard Bible
15 The leech has two daughters: “Give, Give!”
Three things(A) are never satisfied;
four never say, “Enough!”:
16 Sheol;(B) a childless womb;(C)
earth, which is never satisfied with water;
and fire, which never says, “Enough!”
17 As for the eye that ridicules a father(D)
and despises obedience to a mother,
may ravens of the valley pluck it out
and young vultures eat it.(E)
18 Three things are beyond me;
four I can’t understand:
19 the way of an eagle in the sky,
the way of a snake on a rock,
the way of a ship at sea,
and the way of a man with a young woman.
20 This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”(F)
21 The earth trembles under three things;
it cannot bear up under four:
22 a servant when he becomes king,(G)
a fool when he is stuffed with food,
23 an unloved woman when she marries,(H)
and a servant girl when she ousts her queen.
24 Four things on earth are small,
yet they are extremely wise:
25 the ants are not a strong people,
yet they store up their food in the summer;(I)
26 hyraxes are not a mighty people,
yet they make their homes in the cliffs;(J)
27 locusts have no king,
yet all of them march in ranks;(K)
28 a lizard[a] can be caught in your hands,
yet it lives in kings’ palaces.
29 Three things are stately in their stride,
even four are stately in their walk:
Footnotes
- Proverbs 30:28 Or spider
Amos 2:1
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2 The Lord says:
I will not relent from punishing Moab(A)
for three crimes, even four,
because he burned the bones
of the king of Edom to lime.(B)
Amos 2:4
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Amos 2:6
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Judgment on Israel
6 The Lord says:
I will not relent from punishing Israel(A)
for three crimes, even four,
because they sell a righteous person for silver
and a needy person for a pair of sandals.(B)
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