Proverbs 30:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 39:27 : 27 Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
  • Isa 40:31 : 31 But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
  • Exod 22:16 : 16 If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 18 There are three things, the wonder of which overcomes me, even four things outside my knowledge:

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    20 This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

    21 For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with:

  • Prov 6:24-27
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    72%

    24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

    26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

    27 May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?

  • Prov 5:18-21
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    18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

    19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

    20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

    21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

  • 8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

  • 6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

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    33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

    34 Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.

  • 7 No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

    22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

    23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

  • 25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

  • 29 There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair:

  • 17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

  • 16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

  • 26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

  • 23 If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her;

  • 8 Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.

  • 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

  • 20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • Prov 5:3-4
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    3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

    4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

  • Prov 2:16-17
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    16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

    17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

  • 13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • 28 If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it;

  • 27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

  • 24 An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

  • 23 A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

  • 16 If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

  • Prov 21:8-9
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    8 Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

    9 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

  • 1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

  • 14 And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

  • 15 Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

  • 32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • 10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

  • 2 Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

  • 12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

  • 22 How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.

  • 26 The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.

  • 9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.