Proverbs 30:28

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A lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces.

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  • Prov 30:24-27
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    74%

    24Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise:

    25Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer.

    26Rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the crags.

    27Locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks.

  • Prov 31:19-20
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    19She lays her hands to the distaff, and her fingers grasp the spindle.

    20She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

  • Prov 30:29-31
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    29There are three things that are stately in their stride, four that move with stately bearing:

    30A lion, mighty among beasts, who does not retreat before any;

    31a strutting rooster, a he-goat, and a king secure against revolt.

  • Isa 59:5-6
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    69%

    5They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin spider webs. Whoever eats their eggs dies, and when one is crushed, a viper hatches.

    6Their webs will not become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

  • Job 8:14-15
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    14Their confidence is easily cut off, and their trust is like a spider's web.

    15They lean on their house, but it does not stand; they grasp it, but it does not hold firm.

  • Job 39:27-30
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    27Does the eagle soar at your command and build its nest on high?

    28It dwells and lodges on the rocky crag, on the sharp point of the cliff and its stronghold.

    29From there it searches for food; its eyes see it from afar.

    30Its young ones drink blood, and where the slain are, there it is.

  • Isa 34:13
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    13Thorns will grow in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses. It will become a dwelling place for jackals, a home for ostriches.

  • Amos 3:5
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    5Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait for it? Does a trap spring up from the earth when it has caught nothing?

  • Job 27:18
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    18He builds his house like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.

  • Isa 10:14
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    14My hand seized the wealth of nations like one finds a nest. As one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; no wing fluttered, no beak opened to chirp.

  • Job 18:8-10
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    8For his feet are cast into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

    9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him tight.

    10His rope lies hidden in the ground, and his trap is set along the path.

  • Nah 3:15-17
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    15There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.

    16You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The young locust strips the land and flies away.

    17Your crowned guards are like locusts, and your officials are like swarms of locusts camping in the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they flee away, and no one knows where they are.

  • Job 28:7-8
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    7No bird of prey knows that path, nor has the hawk's eye seen it.

    8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, nor has the lion prowled over it.

  • Prov 31:22
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    22She makes coverings for her bed; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

  • Isa 11:8
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    8The nursing child will play near the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

  • Jer 5:27
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    27Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Because of this, they have become great and rich.

  • Amos 5:19
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    19It will be as if a man flees from a lion, only to be met by a bear; or as if he enters his house, rests his hand on the wall, and a snake bites him.

  • Prov 1:17
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    17Surely in vain is the net spread in sight of any bird,

  • Job 3:14
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    14With kings and counselors of the earth who built ruins for themselves.

  • Isa 33:4
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    4Your plunder will be gathered like the gathering of locusts; people will swarm over it like locusts swarming.

  • Prov 6:5-8
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    5Free yourself like a gazelle from the trap, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

    6Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise.

    7She has no commander, no overseer or ruler,

    8yet she prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provisions at harvest.

  • Prov 23:32
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    32In the end, it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.

  • Ps 148:10
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    10wild animals and all livestock, creatures that crawl and flying birds,

  • Job 37:8
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    8The beasts retreat to their dens and dwell in their shelters.

  • Ps 84:3
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    3My soul longs, indeed, it faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

  • Job 39:14
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    14She leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the dust.

  • Prov 31:31
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    31Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gates.

  • Isa 34:15
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    15There, the arrow snake will make her nest, lay eggs, hatch them, and care for her young in her shadow. Indeed, there the kites will gather, each one with its mate.

  • Job 21:28
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    28For you say, 'Where is the house of the noble? Where is the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?

  • Job 15:28
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    28he will dwell in desolated cities, in houses no one inhabits, destined to become ruins.

  • Ps 78:46
    63%

    46He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.