Proverbs 30:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Proverbs 30:29 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 29-33)

Here is, I. An enumeration of four things which are majestic and stately in their going, which look great:—1. A lion, the king of beasts, because strongest among beasts. Among beasts it is strength that gives the pre-eminence, but it is a pity that it should do so among men, whose wisdom is their honour, not their strength and force. The lion turns not away, nor alters his pace, for fear of any pu…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 29)

24-31. These verses provide two classes of apt illustrations of various aspects of the moral world, which the reader is left to apply. By the first (Pr 30:25-28), diligence and providence are commended; the success of these insignificant animals being due to their instinctive sagacity and activity, rather than strength. The other class (Pr 30:30, 31) provides similes for whatever is majestic or co…