箴言 30:21

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

使地震動的事有三樣，連地也擔當不起的，共有四樣：

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
使 地 震 动 的 有 三 样 ， 连 地 担 不 起 的 共 有 四 样 ：

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ "There are three things that are too hard for me, really four I don't understand: ¹⁹ the way an eagle flies in the sky, the way a snake slides over a rock, the way a ship sails on the sea, and the way a man and a woman fall in love. ²⁰ "This is the way of a woman who takes part in adultery: She acts as if she had eaten and washed her face; she says, ‘I haven't done anything wrong.' ²¹ "There are three things that make the earth tremble, really four it cannot stand: ²² a servant who becomes a king, a foolish person who has plenty to eat, ²³ a hated woman who gets married, and a maid who replaces her mistress.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Genesis 16:4 - her mistress Proverbs 6:16 - six Proverbs 19:10 - Delight Proverbs 30:15 - There

Cross-References

Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she was not having children for Jacob, she envied her sister Leah. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I'll die!"

Genesis 30:3
Then Rachel said, "Here is my slave girl Bilhah. Have sexual relations with her so she can give birth to a child for me. Then I can have my own family through her."

Genesis 34:26
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem and then took Dinah out of Shechem's house and left.

Genesis 46:15
These are the sons of Leah and Jacob born in Northwest Mesopotamia, in addition to his daughter Dinah. There were thirty-three persons in this part of Jacob's family.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 30:21. For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear — This is another enigma. Four things insupportable to men. 1. A slave, when he becomes ruler. 2. An overfed fool. 3. An ill-tempered woman, when mistress of a family. And, 4. A servant maid, when the rule of the house is committed to her.

1. A slave, when he comes to bear rule, is an unprincipled tyrant. It has been often observed both in America and in the West Indies, when it was judged necessary to arm some of the most confidential slaves, that no regiments were used so cruelly in the drill, c., as those black regiments that had black officers.

2. The overfed fool. The intellectually weak man, who has every thing at his command, has generally manners which none can bear and, if a favourite with his master, he is insupportable to all others.

3. An ill-tempered woman, when she gets embarrassed with domestic cares, is beyond bearing.

4. A servant maid, when, either through the death of the mistress, or the sin of the husband, she is in fact exalted to be head over the family, is so insolent and impudent, as to be hateful to every one, and execrated by all.