箴言 30:21 RCUVSS

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 30:21

4"For three things the earth doth tremble,And for four which it cannot bear.For a servant when he is king;And a fool when he is filled with food;For an odious woman when she is married;And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress."The cases cited here are of people in relatively inferior positions who find themselves suddenly promoted; and the intimation of the passage is that, "They then become excessively pretentious, arrogant and disagreeable."[20] Some have discovered an element of humor in... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 30:21-23

Proverbs 30:21-23. For three things the earth is disquieted— We have here an answer to another enigmatical question, What things are most intolerable? Which he tells us are, 1. A slave who bears rule; 2. A fool over-fed; 3. A vicious wife in a family; 4. A servant-maid become mistress of the house. This is very clear, and but too well confirmed by experience. A slave, or a man of an obscure condition, and of a mean servile soul, who domineers over others, is a subject of vexation and pain to... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 30:21

21-23. Pride and cruelty, the undue exaltation of those unfit to hold power, produce those vices which disquiet society (compare Proverbs 19:10; Proverbs 28:3). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 30:1-33

VI. COLLECTION 6: THE WISDOM OF AGUR CH. 30Chapters 30 and 31 form a distinct section in Proverbs, because neither Solomon (Proverbs 1:1 to Proverbs 22:16; chs. 25-29), nor the unnamed sages (Proverbs 22:17 to Proverbs 24:34), wrote them. Two other wise men, whose names the text records, did. Some expositors speculate that because these men’s discourses occur at the end of the book, the writers probably lived later than the men of Hezekiah. [Note: E.g., Toy, p. 517.] Nevertheless who Agur and... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 30:10-33

C. Wisdom about life 30:10-33Though his view of and awareness of God are very much behind what Agur said in the rest of this chapter, his counsel deals primarily with practical prudence from this point on. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 30:21-23

These are four more pictures of arrogant folly. They picture upside-down social situations. One writer saw Adolph Hitler as an example of the kind of servant who became a king that the writer envisioned (Proverbs 30:22 a). [Note: Greenstone, p. 324.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 30:1-33

The Words of AgurThe simplest way of treating the title is to read as follows: ’The words of Agur, son of Yakeh, of Massa.’ Then we may proceed, with RM, ’The man saith, I have wearied myself, O God; I have wearied myself, O God, and am consumed; for I am too stupid to be a man.’ Nothing is known of Agur or Yakeh, and we can only say of these proverbs that they are unlike any that have preceded, and are evidently of later date. The grouping of objects in twos, threes, and fours reminds us of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Proverbs 30:1-33

God's Riddle Proverbs 30:4 'What is His name? and what is His Son's name? Canst thou tell?' It is God Almighty's great conundrum spoken out of eternity into time; it is the riddle propounded by the Supreme Intelligence to the heart and reason of every man born into the world. I. 'Canst thou tell?' The history of humanity is little else than one long wrestle with God's infinite conundrum. And there are noble souls and able thinkers who never guess the riddle here, though who can dare to doubt... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:1-33

CHAPTER 31THE WORDS OF AGURTHE rendering of the first verse of this chapter is very uncertain. Without attempting to discuss the many conjectural emendations, we must briefly indicate the view which is here taken. A slight alteration in the pointing; instead of the Masoretic reading changes the proper name Ithiel into a significant verb; and another slight change gives us another verb in the place of Ucal. To remove the difficulty of the word "oracle," a difficulty which arises from the fact... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Proverbs 30:1-33

VI. THE WORDS OF AGUR THE SON OF JAKEH CHAPTER 30 Some hold that Agur is another name for Solomon. This opinion is also upheld by the Talmud, which speaks of six names which belonged to the King: Solomon, Jedidiah, Koheleth, Son of Jakeh, Agur and Lemuel. But this opinion cannot be verified, nor do we know who Agur the son of Jakeh was. The Septuagint and the Vulgate have translated the Hebrew words and formed a sentence out of them. “Agur” means “assembler” and Jakeh has the meaning of... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 30:21

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 30:21-23

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 30:21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 30:1-33

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 30:10-33

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 30:21-23

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 30:1-33

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Proverbs 30:1-33

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:1-33

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Proverbs 30:1-33

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