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Proverbs 30:24

Context
NETBible

There are four things on earth that are small, 1  but they are exceedingly wise: 2 

XREF

Job 12:7

NET © Notes

tn Heb “Four are the small things of the earth.” TEV has “four animals,” though in the list of four that follows, two are insects and one is a reptile.

tn The construction uses the Pual participle with the plural adjective as an intensive; these four creatures are the very embodiment of wisdom (BDB 314 s.v. חָכַם Pu).



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