Proverbs 30:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands - literally, divided (Maurer); Joel 2:7-8; or, as the Chaldaic and Syriac, 'collected together' х chotseets (H2686)]: from chaatsats, a pebble, or means of calculation: all in their hands as it, were according to catalogue. Gejer translates, 'they go forth like archers,' another sense of the Hebrew. But the English version is preferable.

Proverbs 30:27

27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;