SUMMARY
Learn something by observing the creatures of nature!
ANALYSIS
Proverbs 30:24-28 breaks the pattern of three things, indeed even four, and speaks directly of four animals and what we can learn from them: ants, badgers, locustsLocusts are a type of grasshopper (which, along with wild honey, comprised John the Baptist's diet). A swarm of locusts is the eighth plague before the Jews left Egypt in Exodus. The book of Joel takes place in the aftermath of a plague of locusts,..., and lizards. (See “Learning from Nature” entry in Bible in the World – Proverbs.) One thinks of Harvard University Professor Edward O. Wilson who has spent a good part of a lifetime observing and reflecting on the sort of thing described in verses 24 and 25. His Pulitzer Prize-winning book is titled The Ants.
