29 “There are three things that are stately in their stride,
    four that move with stately bearing:
30 a lion, mighty among beasts,
    who retreats before nothing;
31 a strutting rooster, a he-goat,
    and a king secure against revolt.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:31 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

29 (A)Three things are stately in their tread;
    (B)four are stately in their stride:
30 the lion, which is mightiest among beasts
    and (C)does not turn back before any;
31 the (D)strutting rooster,[a] the he-goat,
    and a king whose army is with him.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:31 Or the magpie, or the greyhound; Hebrew girt-of-loins
  2. Proverbs 30:31 Or against whom there is no rising up