Proverbs 30:28
You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.
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- Prov 30:24-274 verses74%
24 There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are very wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;
26 The conies are only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks;
27 The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;
- Prov 31:19-202 verses70%
19 She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.
20 Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.
- Prov 30:29-313 verses70%
29 There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair:
30 The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any;
31 The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.
- Isa 59:5-62 verses69%
5 They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.
6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
- Job 8:14-152 verses69%
14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
15 He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.
- Job 39:27-304 verses69%
27 Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
28 When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.
29 Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
30 Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
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13 And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.
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5 Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from the earth if it has taken nothing at all?
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18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.
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14 And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
- Job 18:8-103 verses66%
8 His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.
9 His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.
10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.
- Nah 3:15-173 verses66%
15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.
16 Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:
17 Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.
- Job 28:7-82 verses65%
7 No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.
8 The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.
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22 She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple.
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8 And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.
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27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
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19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.
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17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
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14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
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4 And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.
- Prov 6:5-84 verses65%
5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
6 Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
7 Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8 She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
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32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
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10 Beasts and all cattle; insects and winged birds:
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8 Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.
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3 The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.
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14 Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
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31 Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.
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15 The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.
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28 For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?
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28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.
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46 He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.