箴言 30:29

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

步伐威武的東西有三樣，連行走威武的，共有四樣：

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
步 行 威 武 的 有 三 样 ， 连 行 走 威 武 的 共 有 四 样 ：

Contextual Overview

²⁹ "There are three things that strut proudly, really four that walk as if they were important: ³⁰ a lion, the proudest animal, which is strong and runs from nothing, ³¹ a rooster, a male goat, and a king when his army is around him. ³² "If you have been foolish and proud, or if you have planned evil, shut your mouth. ³³ Just as stirring milk makes butter, and twisting noses makes them bleed, so stirring up anger causes trouble."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Proverbs 6:16 - six Proverbs 30:15 - There Micah 5:5 - seven

Cross-References

Genesis 30:5
She became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:8
Rachel said, "I have struggled hard with my sister, and I have won." So she named that son Naphtali.

Genesis 30:9
Leah saw that she had stopped having children, so she gave her slave girl Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 30:10
When Zilpah had a son,

Genesis 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel and answered her prayer, making it possible for her to have children.

Genesis 30:25
After the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Now let me go to my own home and country.

Genesis 30:38
He put the branches in front of the flocks at the watering places. When the animals came to drink, they also mated there,

Genesis 30:40
Jacob separated the young animals from the others, and he made them face the streaked and dark animals in Laban's flock. Jacob kept his animals separate from Laban's.

Genesis 31:6
You both know that I have worked as hard as I could for your father,

Matthew 24:45
"Who is the wise and loyal servant that the master trusts to give the other servants their food at the right time?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There be three [things] which go well,.... In a very orderly and composed manner; with constancy and cheerfulness, with great stateliness and majesty, intrepidly, and without fear;

yea, four are comely in going; very beautiful and lovely to look at as they walk.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 30:29. There be three things which go well — Here is another set of emblems; four things which walk beautifully and with majesty. 1. The Lamentations 2:0; Lamentations 2:0. The greyhound. 3. The he-goat. And, 4. A king.

1. Nothing can be more majestic than the walk of the lion. It is deliberate, equal, firm, and in every respect becoming the king of the forest.

2. The greyhound. זרזיר מתנים zarzir mothnayim, the girt in the loins; but what this beast is we do not distinctly know. It is most likely that this was the greyhound, which in the East are remarkably fine, and very fleet. Scarcely any thing can be conceived to go with greater fleetness, in full chase, than a greyhound with its prey in view: it seems to swim over the earth.

3. The goat, תיש tayish. This is generally allowed to be the he-goat; and how he walks, and what state he assumes, in the presence of his part of the flock, every one knows, who has at all noticed this animal. The ram also, which some suppose to be intended, is both fierce and majestic at the head of the sheep.

4. And a king, against whom there is no rising up. That is, a king whose court, counsels, and troops, are so firmly united to him, as to render all hopes of successful conspiracy against him utterly vain. He walks boldly and majestically about, being safe in the affections of his people. But the Hebrew is singular; it makes but two words; and these are they, ומלך אלקום umelech Alkum, "and King Alkum." It is a doubt whether this may not be a proper name, as Agur abounds in them; see Ithiel, Ucal, and probably Alukah, Proverbs 30:15. But it is said, "We know nothing of a king named Alkum." True; nor do we know any thing of Agur, Ithiel, Ucal, to say nothing of Alukah. And this might have been some remarkable chieftain, who carried his victories wherever he went, and was remarkably fortunate. If, however, we separate the word into אל al, "not," and קום kum, "he arose," we may make the interpretation above given.