Proverbschapter 30
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Chapter summary
The words of Agur, wisdom that begins in creaturely smallness: 'Surely I am more brutish than any man… Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended?… what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?' Every word of God is tried; add thou not unto his words.
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Chapter summary
The words of Agur, wisdom that begins in creaturely smallness: 'Surely I am more brutish than any man… Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended?… what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?' Every word of God is tried; add thou not unto his words.
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The words of Agur, wisdom that begins in creaturely smallness: 'Surely I am more brutish than any man… Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended?… what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?' Every word of God is tried; add thou not unto his words. The two-request prayer: 'Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me.' Then the numerical sayings, four things never satisfied; four too wonderful ('the way of an eagle… the way of a man with a maiden'); four little things exceeding wise: ants, conies, locusts, the lizard in kings' palaces.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory and Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary.
Context
Poetry · Solomon, Agur, Lemuel — Proverbs overview
- A. 1–9 Agur's Confession: Give Me Neither Poverty Nor Riches
- B. 10–23 Three Things, Yea Four, That Are Never Satisfied
- C. 24–33 Four Things Little Upon the Earth but Exceeding Wise
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