Proverbs 30:21

Four — Which are intolerable in human societies.

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For three things the earth is disquieted, trembling as under an unbearable burden, and for four which it cannot bear:
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 2:25 ; Genesis 36:7 ; Genesis 4:13 ; Job 40:5 ; Proverbs 18:5 ; Proverbs 29:9

²¹ For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 30:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 30:21