잠언 30:6-7 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:5-6

The purity of God's words I. THE REFUGE FROM VAIN SPECULATION IS PRACTICAL REVELATION . The search for God in thought and nature has ended in weariness. But Agur does not subside into agnosticism, much less does he renounce all higher thinking as "vanity of vanities," and plunge into Sadducean worldliness and Epicurean materialism. On the contrary, though he gives up his ambitious quest with a sigh of disappointment, he learns to take a humbler path, on which he finds that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:6

Add thou not unto his words. God's will, as announced in revelation, is to be simply accepted and acted upon, not watered down, not overstrained. This injunction had already been given in the old Law ( Deuteronomy 4:2 ; Deuteronomy 12:32 ); it is repeated in the New Testament with awful emphasis ( Revelation 22:18 , Revelation 22:19 ). No human speculations or traditions may be mingled with God's words; the glosses and explanations and definitions, affixed by rabbinical ingenuity to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:7

Two things have I required of thee. The personal pronoun applies to God, who, according to our interpretation, has been invoked in Proverbs 30:1 ; otherwise it stands without reference to anything preceding. Deny me not before I die; i . e . grant me these two things for the rest of my life. Septuagint, "Take not grace ( χάριν ) from me before I die." read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:7-9

A mashal ode, containing two requests, and a rationale of the latter. The matter of the two prayers connects it with Proverbs 30:6 , whether we consider that the limitation of man's desire follows naturally the limitation of his knowledge (Plumptre). or that the warning against being reproved as a liar is corroborated by the prayer against vanity and lies (but see below, on Proverbs 30:9 ). It is the first of Agur's numerical proverbs. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:7-9

The golden mean I. THE WAY OF LIFE : TRUTH IS THE MEAN BETWEEN TWO EXTREMES . ( Proverbs 30:8 .) Extremes exist in logic; life shows that extremes meet, and that the path of sense in opinion and of safety in conduct lies intermediate between them. II. GREAT INCHES ARE NOT IN THEMSELVES DESIRABLE . Not by the wise and religious man. They bring perils to the soul. Full of his gifts, it is tempted to deny the Giver. The deepest atheism springs from... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:7-9

A new year's prayer We have in these most instructive words a wise and good man— I. CALMLY CONFRONTING THE FUTURE . Whether we read "before I die" or "until I die" (Wardlaw), we have a good man deliberately facing the future of his life. He realizes that before him stretches out a tract of time which he has to cross; he knows that he must keep steadily, incessantly, moving forward; that he will meet with difficulties and dangers on his way; that he will want all and more than... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 30:6

Proverbs 30:6. Add thou not unto his words As the word of God is pure, do not thou corrupt it, by adding to it thine own or other men’s inventions, or opinions; lest he reprove thee By words or deeds; by discovering thy folly, and bringing thee to deserved shame and punishment; and thou be found a liar Delivering thy own fancies and notions in the name, and as the truths of God, and thus being guilty of the worst of forgeries. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 30:7-8

Proverbs 30:7-8. Two things have I required of thee I do most earnestly and especially desire: deny me them not Hebrew, אל תמנע ממני , withhold them not from me; before I die That is, while I live, as being things of great and continual necessity, for thy honour and service, and my own good. Remove far from me From my heart, and from the course of my life: vanity That Isaiah , 1 st, All false and vain opinions, namely, concerning God and things divine; all unbelief, idolatry, and... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:1-9

30:1-31:31 OTHER COLLECTIONS OF WISE SAYINGSThe personal testimony of Agur (30:1-9)Agur, some of whose sayings are collected here, was apparently a well known wisdom teacher in the Palestine region. He begins his instruction with a confession that though he longs to know God he cannot, because he is merely a man. No human being can do the great works God has done. Agur challenges his hearers to tell him the name of any person (or the name of that person’s son, if they prefer) who has been to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 30:6

Add thou not, &c. A solemn warning based on Deuteronomy 4:2 ; Deuteronomy 12:32 . Compare Galatians 1:1 , Galatians 1:8 , Galatians 1:9 . Revelation 22:18 , Revelation 22:19 . reprove thee. Emphatic = send a special reproof unto thee. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:5-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:7-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:7-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 30:7-9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 30:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 30:7-8

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Proverbs 30:1-9

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 30:6

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