Proverbs 30:21 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 30:21

Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:

BSB

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ASV

For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, which it cannot bear:

KJV

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

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Hippolytus of Rome

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The shaking (of the earth) signifies the change of things upon earth.-Sin, then, which in its own nature is a slave, has reigned in the mortal body of men: once, indeed, at the time of the flood; and again in the time of the Sodomites, who, not satisfied with what the land yielded, offered violence to strangers; and a third time in the case of hateful Egypt, which, though it obtained in Joseph a man who distributed food to all, that they might not perish of famine, yet did not take well with his prosperity, but persecuted the children of Israel.

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John Gill

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

For three things the earth is disquieted,.... The inhabitants of it are made very uneasy; and for four which it cannot bear; they are a load and burden upon it, and are intolerable to those that dwell on it, and make them very uncomfortable.

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Albert Barnes

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For four which it cannot bear - Better: four it cannot bear. Here the common element is that of being intolerable, and the four examples are divided equally between the two sexes. Each has its examples of power and prosperity misused because they fall to the lot of those who have no training for them, and are therefore in the wrong place.

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9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
תַּ֣חַת	Ta.chat	under	H8478 →
שָׁ֭לוֹשׁ	Sha.lo.osh	three [things]	H7969 →
רָ֣גְזָה	Ra.ge.zah	it quakes	H7264 →
אֶ֑רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] earth	H776 →
וְתַ֥חַת	ve.Ta.chat	and under	H8478 →
אַ֝רְבַּ֗ע	'ar.Ba'	four [things]	H702 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
תוּכַ֥ל	tu.Khal	it is able	H3201 →
שְׂאֵֽת׃	se.'Et	to bear up	H5375 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H702ʾarba'four [things]318×

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