Proverbs 30:19

American Standard Version (1901)

The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent upon a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 39:27 : 27 Is it at thy command that the eagle mounteth up, And maketh her nest on high?
  • Isa 40:31 : 31 but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
  • Exod 22:16 : 16 And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 18There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not:

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    20So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

    21For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, [which] it cannot bear:

  • Prov 6:24-27
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    24To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

    25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

    27Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not be burned?

  • Prov 5:18-21
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    18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

    19[ As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

    20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

    21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.

  • 8Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,

  • 6So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.

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    33Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

    34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

  • 7That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon's eye seen it:

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    21With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

    22He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;

    23Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

  • 25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

  • 29There are three things which are stately in their march, Yea, four which are stately in going:

  • 17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

  • 16He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil.

  • 26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [

  • 23If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

  • 8As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.

  • 8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

  • 20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 5:3-4
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    3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

    4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

  • Prov 2:16-17
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    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

    17That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

  • 13and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she be not taken in the act;

  • 28If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

  • 27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

  • 24a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

  • 23For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

  • 16And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

  • Prov 21:8-9
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    8The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.

    9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

  • 1I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

  • 14and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

  • 15Wilt thou keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden?

  • 32A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • 10And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

  • 2Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • 12Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • 22How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou backsliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

  • 26Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soareth, (And) stretcheth her wings toward the south?

  • 9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.