Proverbs 30:27
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;
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.
29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
- KJV
- The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
- WEB
- The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.
- ASV
- The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands;
- DARBY
- the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;
- BLB
- a king [is] not unto the locust, and go they forth in formation, all of them;
- ÅB
- gresshoppene har ingen konge, og enda drar de alle ut, skare etter skare;
- OTB
- Gresshoppene, som ikke har noen konge, marsjerer sammen i rekker;
- B1930
- gresshoppene har ingen konge, og enda drar de alle ut, skare efter skare;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Joel 1:6–7
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
Read in contextJoel 2:7–11
They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
Read in contextPsalms 105:34
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
Read in contextExodus 10:4–6
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
Read in contextJoel 2:25
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Read in contextRevelation 9:3–11
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Read in contextExodus 10:13–15
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Read in contextJoel 1:4
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
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