Proverbs 30:28
a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.
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24There are four things on earth that are small, but they are exceedingly wise:
25ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer;
26rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags;
27locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks;
- Prov 31:19-202 verses70%
19She extended her hands to the spool, and her hands grasped the spindle.
20She opened her hand to the poor, and extended her hands to the needy.
- Prov 30:29-313 verses70%
29There are three things that are magnificent in their step, four things that move about magnificently:
30a lion, mightiest of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;
31a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him.
- Isa 59:5-62 verses69%
5They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched.
6Their webs cannot be used for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are sinful; they commit violent crimes.
- Job 8:14-152 verses69%
14whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web.
15He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.
- Job 39:27-304 verses69%
27Is it at your command that the eagle soars, and builds its nest on high?
28It lives on a rock and spends the night there, on a rocky crag and a fortress.
29From there it spots its prey, its eyes gaze intently from a distance.
30And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”
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13Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there.
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5Does a bird swoop down into a trap on the ground if there is no bait? Does a trap spring up from the ground unless it has surely caught something?
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18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
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14My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest, as one gathers up abandoned eggs, I gathered up the whole earth. There was no wing flapping, or open mouth chirping.”
- Job 18:8-103 verses66%
8For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.
9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.
10A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.
- Nah 3:15-173 verses66%
15There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would.The Assyrian Defenders Will Flee Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!
16Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.
17Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.
- Job 28:7-82 verses65%
7a hidden path no bird of prey knows– no falcon’s eye has spotted it.
8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.
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22because she had made coverings for herself; and because her clothing was fine linen and purple.
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8A baby will play over the hole of a snake; over the nest of a serpent an infant will put his hand.
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27Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.
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19Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.
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17Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,
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14with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
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4Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!
- Prov 6:5-84 verses65%
5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
6Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!
7It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,
8yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat.
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32Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.
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10you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,
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8The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.
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3Even the birds find a home there, and the swallow builds a nest, where she can protect her young near your altars, O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, my king and my God.
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14For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.
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31Give her credit for what she has accomplished, and let her works praise her in the city gates.
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15Owls will make nests and lay eggs there; they will hatch them and protect them. Yes, hawks will gather there, each with its mate.
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28For you say,‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’
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28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
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46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.