KJV King James Version
The conies [are but] a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
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Proverbs 30:26
The conies [are but] a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;
WEB World English Bible
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.
ASV American Standard Version
The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Conies are a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,
Surrounding context — Proverbs 30
23 For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
24 There be four [things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are] exceeding wise:
25 The ants [are] a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
26 The conies [are but] a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
29 There be three [things] which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
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