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Proverbs 30:11–19

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There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
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From verse 11

  1. Proverbs 20:20Rank 1 from verse 11
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    20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

  2. Proverbs 30:17Rank 2 from verse 11
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    17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

  3. Deuteronomy 27:16Rank 3 from verse 11
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    16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  4. Exodus 21:17Rank 4 from verse 11
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    17¶ And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

  5. Proverbs 30:12–14Rank 5 from verse 11
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    12There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

    13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

    14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

  6. Leviticus 20:9Rank 6 from verse 11
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    9¶ For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  7. Deuteronomy 21:20–21Rank 7 from verse 11
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    20And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

    21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

  8. 1 Timothy 5:4Rank 8 from verse 11
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    4But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

  9. 1 Timothy 5:8Rank 9 from verse 11
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    8But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

  10. Mark 7:10–13Rank 10 from verse 11
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    10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

    11But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

    12And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

    13Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

  11. Matthew 15:4–6Rank 11 from verse 11
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    4For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

    5But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

    6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

  12. 1 Peter 2:9Rank 12 from verse 11
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    9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

  13. Matthew 3:7Rank 13 from verse 11
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    7¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

From verse 12

  1. Luke 18:11Rank 1 from verse 12
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    11The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

  2. 2 Timothy 3:5Rank 2 from verse 12
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    5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

  3. Proverbs 16:2Rank 3 from verse 12
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    2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

  4. Jeremiah 2:35Rank 4 from verse 12
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    35Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

  5. 1 John 1:7–10Rank 5 from verse 12
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    7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

    8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

    9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

    10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

  6. Proverbs 21:2Rank 6 from verse 12
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    2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

  7. Titus 3:5Rank 7 from verse 12
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    5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

  8. Ezekiel 36:25Rank 8 from verse 12
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    25¶ Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

  9. Isaiah 65:5Rank 9 from verse 12
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    5Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

  10. Luke 16:15Rank 10 from verse 12
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    15And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

  11. 1 Corinthians 6:11Rank 11 from verse 12
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    11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

  12. Isaiah 1:16Rank 12 from verse 12
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    16¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

  13. Jeremiah 4:14Rank 13 from verse 12
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    14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

  14. Luke 11:39–40Rank 14 from verse 12
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    39And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

    40Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

  15. Psalms 36:2Rank 15 from verse 12
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    2For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

  16. Psalms 51:2Rank 16 from verse 12
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    2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

  17. Psalms 51:7Rank 17 from verse 12
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    7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

  18. Titus 1:15–16Rank 18 from verse 12
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    15Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

    16They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

  19. Zechariah 13:1Rank 19 from verse 12
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    1IN that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

  20. 1 Samuel 15:13–14Rank 20 from verse 12
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    13And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord: I have performed the commandment of the Lord.

    14And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

  21. Jeremiah 2:22–24Rank 21 from verse 12
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    22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.

    23How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

    24A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

  22. Job 33:9Rank 22 from verse 12
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    9I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

  23. Judges 17:13Rank 23 from verse 12
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    13Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

  24. Judges 17:5Rank 24 from verse 12
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    5And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

  25. Revelation 1:5Rank 25 from verse 12
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    5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

From verse 13

  1. Proverbs 6:17Rank 1 from verse 13
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    17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

  2. Isaiah 2:11Rank 2 from verse 13
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    11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

  3. Psalms 101:5Rank 3 from verse 13
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    5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

  4. Psalms 131:1Rank 4 from verse 13
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    1LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

  5. Daniel 11:36–37Rank 5 from verse 13
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    36And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

    37Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

  6. Ezekiel 28:2–5Rank 6 from verse 13
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    2Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

    3Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

    4With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

    5By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

  7. Ezekiel 28:9Rank 7 from verse 13
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    9Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

  8. Habakkuk 2:4Rank 8 from verse 13
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    4Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

  9. Isaiah 3:16Rank 9 from verse 13
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    16¶ Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

  10. Proverbs 21:4Rank 10 from verse 13
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    4An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

  11. 2 Thessalonians 2:3–4Rank 11 from verse 13
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    3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

    4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

From verse 14

  1. Psalms 57:4Rank 1 from verse 14
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    4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

  2. Psalms 3:7Rank 2 from verse 14
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    7Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

  3. Psalms 14:4Rank 3 from verse 14
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    4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

  4. Job 29:17Rank 4 from verse 14
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    17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

  5. Amos 8:4Rank 5 from verse 14
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    4¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

  6. Ecclesiastes 4:1Rank 6 from verse 14
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    1SO I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

  7. Psalms 12:5Rank 7 from verse 14
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    5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

  8. Psalms 58:6Rank 8 from verse 14
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    6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.

  9. Revelation 9:8Rank 9 from verse 14
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    8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

  10. Micah 2:1–2Rank 10 from verse 14
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    1WOE to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

    2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  11. Psalms 10:8–9Rank 11 from verse 14
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    8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

    9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

  12. Amos 2:7Rank 12 from verse 14
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    7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

  13. Amos 4:1Rank 13 from verse 14
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    1HEAR this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

  14. Daniel 7:5–7Rank 14 from verse 14
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    5And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

    6After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

    7After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

  15. Habakkuk 3:14Rank 15 from verse 14
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    14Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

  16. Isaiah 32:7Rank 16 from verse 14
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    7The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

  17. James 5:1–4Rank 17 from verse 14
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    1GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

    2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

    3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

    4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

  18. Matthew 23:13Rank 18 from verse 14
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    13¶ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

  19. Micah 3:1–5Rank 19 from verse 14
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    1AND I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?

    2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

    3Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

    4Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

    5¶ Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

  20. Proverbs 12:18Rank 20 from verse 14
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    18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

  21. Proverbs 22:16Rank 21 from verse 14
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    16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  22. Proverbs 28:3Rank 22 from verse 14
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    3A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

  23. Psalms 52:2Rank 23 from verse 14
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    2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

  24. Zephaniah 3:3Rank 24 from verse 14
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    3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

From verse 15

  1. Proverbs 30:21Rank 1 from verse 15
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    21For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

  2. Proverbs 30:29Rank 2 from verse 15
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    29There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

  3. Proverbs 6:16Rank 3 from verse 15
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    16¶ These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

  4. Romans 16:18Rank 4 from verse 15
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    18For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

  5. 2 Peter 2:13–15Rank 5 from verse 15
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    13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

    14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

    15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

  6. 2 Peter 2:3Rank 6 from verse 15
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    3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

  7. Amos 1:11Rank 7 from verse 15
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    11¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

  8. John 8:39Rank 8 from verse 15
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    39They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

  9. John 8:44Rank 9 from verse 15
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    44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

  10. Jude 1:11–12Rank 10 from verse 15
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    11Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

    12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

  11. Amos 1:13Rank 11 from verse 15
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    13¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

  12. Amos 1:3Rank 12 from verse 15
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    3Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

  13. Amos 1:6Rank 13 from verse 15
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    6¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

  14. Amos 2:1Rank 14 from verse 15
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    1THUS saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

  15. Amos 2:4Rank 15 from verse 15
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    4¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

  16. Matthew 23:32Rank 16 from verse 15
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    32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

  17. Micah 7:3Rank 17 from verse 15
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    3¶ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  18. Proverbs 30:24Rank 18 from verse 15
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    24There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

  19. Amos 1:9Rank 19 from verse 15
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    9¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

  20. Ezekiel 16:44–46Rank 20 from verse 15
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    44¶ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

    45Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

    46And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

  21. Hosea 4:18Rank 21 from verse 15
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    18Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

  22. Isaiah 56:11–12Rank 22 from verse 15
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    11Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

    12Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

  23. Isaiah 57:3Rank 23 from verse 15
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    3¶ But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

From verse 16

  1. Proverbs 27:20Rank 1 from verse 16
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    20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

  2. Habakkuk 2:5Rank 2 from verse 16
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    5¶ Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

  3. Genesis 30:1Rank 3 from verse 16
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    1AND when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

From verse 17

  1. Deuteronomy 21:18–21Rank 1 from verse 17
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    18¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

    19Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

    20And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

    21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

  2. Proverbs 23:22Rank 2 from verse 17
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    22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

  3. Proverbs 30:11Rank 3 from verse 17
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    11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

  4. 2 Samuel 18:14–17Rank 4 from verse 17
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    14Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

    15And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

    16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

    17And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

  5. Leviticus 20:9Rank 5 from verse 17
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    9¶ For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  6. Genesis 9:21–27Rank 6 from verse 17
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    21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

    22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

    23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

    24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

    25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

    26And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

    27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

  7. Proverbs 20:20Rank 7 from verse 17
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    20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

  8. 1 Samuel 17:44Rank 8 from verse 17
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    44And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

  9. 2 Samuel 21:10Rank 9 from verse 17
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    10¶ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

  10. Deuteronomy 28:26Rank 10 from verse 17
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    26And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

  11. 2 Samuel 18:9–10Rank 11 from verse 17
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    9¶ And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

    10And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

From verse 18

  1. Job 42:3Rank 1 from verse 18
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    3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

  2. Psalms 139:6Rank 2 from verse 18
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    6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

From verse 19

  1. Isaiah 40:31Rank 1 from verse 19
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    31But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

  2. Job 39:27Rank 2 from verse 19
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    27Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

  3. Exodus 22:16Rank 3 from verse 19
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    16¶ And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

Definitions

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DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 30:11

COMBINED MEANING

curseth

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Third-person singular present form of curse (to utter a wish of evil against one; to imprecate evil upon; to call for mischief or injury to fall upon; to execrate).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

bless

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To pronounce or bestow good, favor, or happiness; to praise, thank, or glorify God.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

mother

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Sense 1: A female parent. Sense 2: Figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 30:12

COMBINED MEANING

pure

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Clean, undefiled, unmixed, uncorrupted, genuine, clear, or sincere; free from contaminating matter or evil.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

yet

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1. Up to or at the present or stated time; still. 2. At some future time. 3. Nevertheless; however. 4. In addition; further.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

washed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of wash, meaning to cleanse with water or another liquid; to bathe or cause water to pass over.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 30:13

COMBINED MEANING

lofty

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Sense 1: High, elevated, or exalted in place or rank. Sense 2: Proud, haughty, or self-exalting.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 30:14

COMBINED MEANING

teeth

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1. The hard structures in a person's or animal's jaws, chiefly used for biting and chewing. 2. Toothlike points or projections on a tool or instrument. 3. In ‘cast ... in his teeth,’ to reproach or taunt someone to his face.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

jaw

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The bones of the mouth in which the teeth are fixed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

earth

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Sense 1: The world in distinction from heaven. Sense 2: Dry land, ground, soil, or dust. Sense 3: A land, region, or its inhabitants.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 30:15

COMBINED MEANING

never

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Sense 1: Not ever; at no time or in no case. Sense 2: In never so constructions, however or no matter how much.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

satisfied

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Past-tense or past-participial form of satisfy (to fill, content, supply sufficiently, or meet what is required).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

yea

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1. Indeed, marking confirmation, emphasis, addition, continuation, or heightening of what is said; it may also emphasize a question. 2. Yes, expressing an affirmative answer or declaration.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 30:16

COMBINED MEANING

grave

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Sense 1: The place of the dead or of burial; a tomb, burial place, or pit. Sense 2: To cut, carve, or engrave. Sense 3: As an adjective, serious, sober, dignified, or worthy of respect.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

barren

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1. Unable to bear offspring. 2. Unproductive or unable to yield fruit or increase; desolate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

womb

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Sense 1: The bodily place in a female where a child is conceived and carried before birth. Sense 2: A source pictured as such a place.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

earth

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Sense 1: The world in distinction from heaven. Sense 2: Dry land, ground, soil, or dust. Sense 3: A land, region, or its inhabitants.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

filled

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of fill. Sense 1: To make full or occupy capacity. Sense 2: To satisfy. Sense 3: To occupy. Sense 4: To complete what is lacking.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

water

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Sense 1: The common liquid necessary for life. Sense 2: As a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

fire

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Burning flame and heat that gives light, consumes, purifies, or destroys.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 30:17

COMBINED MEANING

eye

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Sense 1: The bodily organ of sight; by extension, sight or seeing. Sense 2: Regard, judgment, disposition, or watchful attention, expressed figuratively by the eye. Sense 3: A small opening, as the eye of a needle. Sense 4: To watch or regard.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

obey

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To hear with submission and do what is commanded; to comply with authority or instruction.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

mother

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Sense 1: A female parent. Sense 2: Figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

young

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1. Early in life or growth. 2. Offspring or young persons or creatures.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

eat

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To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 30:18

COMBINED MEANING

which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wonderful

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1. Causing wonder; astonishing or marvellous. 2. Beyond ordinary understanding or ability.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

yea

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1. Indeed, marking confirmation, emphasis, addition, continuation, or heightening of what is said; it may also emphasize a question. 2. Yes, expressing an affirmative answer or declaration.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

know

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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 30:19

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

rock

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1. A mass of stone or a rocky place. 2. Figuratively, a secure refuge, strength, foundation, or cause of stumbling. 3. A title or figure for God or Christ.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ship

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A vessel or boat used for travel or for carrying persons or goods over water.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

midst

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The middle, centre, interior, or intervening part of a place, body, company, or condition; among, within, surrounded by, or in the presence of persons or things.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

sea

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1. A great body or expanse of gathered waters, including a named sea or lake, in which ships and creatures move. 2. The large brazen or molten basin made for the temple and called a sea. 3. Something represented or compared as a sea.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

maid

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1. A female servant or attendant. 2. A girl or young woman, especially an unmarried woman or virgin.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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30:1THE words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

30:2Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

30:3I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

30:4Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?

30:5Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

30:6Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

30:7Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

30:8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

30:9Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

30:10Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

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30:12There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

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30:13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

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30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

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30:15The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

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30:16The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

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30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

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30:18There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

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30:19The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

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30:20Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

30:21For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

30:22For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

30:23For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

30:24There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

30:25The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

30:26The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

30:27The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

30:28The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

30:29There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

30:30A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;

30:31A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.

30:32If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

30:33Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

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