Proverbs 30:24-31

Good News Translation

²⁵ Ants: they are weak, but they store up their food in the summer.
²⁶ Rock badgers: they are not strong either, but they make their homes among the rocks.
²⁷ Locusts: they have no king, but they move in formation.
²⁸ Lizards: you can hold one in your hand, but you can find them in palaces.

³⁰ lions, strongest of all animals and afraid of none;
³¹ goats, strutting roosters,
and kings in front of their people.^[a]