Proverbs 30:27
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Proverbs 30:27 in other translations
| BSB | the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation; |
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| WEB | The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks. |
| ASV | The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands; |
| YLT | A king there is not to the locust, And it goeth out--each one shouting, |
| DARBY | the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands; |
| BBE | The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands; |
| Webster | The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; |
What does Proverbs 30:27 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 30:24-31
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 comely, uniting…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 30:24-28
Four things that are little, are yet to be admired. There are those who are poor in the world, and of small account, yet wise for their souls and another world.
Proverbs 30:27 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 30:27
- Joel 1:6-7
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
- Joel 2:7-11
They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: …
- Psalms 105:34
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
- Exodus 10:4-6
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field: And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
- Joel 2:25
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
- Revelation 9:3-11
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. …
- Exodus 10:13-15
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
- Joel 1:4
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
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Context
- Proverbs 30:26
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
- Proverbs 30:27
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
- Proverbs 30:28
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
Proverbs 30:27 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Las langostas, no tienen rey, y salen todas acuadrilladas; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | les sauterelles n’ont point de roi, mais elles sortent toutes par bandes; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | die Heuschrecken haben keinen König, und doch ziehen sie allesamt aus in geordneten Scharen; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | regem locusta non habet, et egreditur universa per turmas suas; |