VERSE STUDY • KJV

Proverbs 30:24

There be four [things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are] exceeding wise:

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There be four [things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are] exceeding wise:

Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:

“There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

There are four things which are little upon the earth, But they are exceeding wise:

Four are little ones of earth, And they are made wiser than the wise:

21 For three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for four [which] it cannot bear:

22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

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;

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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